Tag: Air Force

Capt. Paul Barbour has been identified as the pilot killed in the T-38 Talon crash in Texas on Monday. (Barksdale Air Force Base photo)

National Security

Air Force identifies pilot killed in T-38 trainer crash

David Brown · November 22, 2017 6:17 pm

One pilot was killed and another was rushed to the hospital after a T-38 trainer crashed Monday afternoon about 14 miles northwest of Laughlin Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force courtesty photo/Bobbi Zapka)

National Security

Air Force suspends trainer flights at Texas base after deadly crash

David Brown · November 21, 2017 6:45 pm

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says the preliminary data indicate that as many as 20 percent of criminal convictions and dishonorable discharges have not been entered into the FBI's National Crime Information Center data base in recent years. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Army finds significant gaps in reporting of criminal records to civilian agencies

Jamie McIntyre · November 15, 2017 8:31 pm

Retired Gen. C. Robert Kehler, former Commander United States Strategic Command, testifies before Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on North Korea on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Retired general: Military won’t ‘blindly’ follow Trump’s nuclear strike orders

Joel Gehrke · November 14, 2017 7:52 pm

A brigade from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority repairs distribution lines damaged by Hurricane Maria. Puerto Rico's government scored a big win in court Monday after a judge rejected the appointment of a former military officer to oversee the U.S. territory's troubled power company. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)

Energy and Environment

Federal court rejects plan to install emergency manager to oversee Puerto Rico’s bankrupt power utility

Josh Siegel · November 14, 2017 1:20 pm

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, left, and Gen. David L. Goldfein, right, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, have raised concerns about retaining people as many pilots leave for better pay in the civilian sector. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais )

Empty Cockpit Syndrome: Air Force struggles to pull pilot plunge out of tailspin

Jamie McIntyre · November 13, 2017 5:01 am

Thoughts and Prayers

The Editors · November 10, 2017 9:00 am

Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria gave a speech about race relations to cadets on Sept. 29 at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., after someone wrote racial slurs on message boards outside the dorm rooms of five black students. It was later revealed it was a black student who had perpetrated a hoax. (screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: At Air Force Academy, a perfect hoax for age of Trump

Byron York · November 10, 2017 4:37 am

"We will find out why this information was not properly reported in 2012, and we will work with leaders in Congress to ensure that this never happens again." (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

National Security

Mike Pence: Air Force to complete review of error allowing Texas shooter to purchase gun ‘in days, not weeks’

Daniel Chaitin · November 9, 2017 2:46 am

On Wednesday, members from the House and the Senate struck an agreement on a bill that proposes a major hike in defense spending and a raft of Pentagon reforms. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Here’s a look at what did (and didn’t) make it into the $700 billion defense policy bill

Travis J. Tritten · November 8, 2017 10:38 pm

Under military law, there is no specific offense of "domestic violence" or "domestic abuse." (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

National Security

The loophole that may have given the Texas church gunman access to his arsenal

Jamie McIntyre · November 8, 2017 7:01 pm

The incident in late September, in which five black cadet candidates found slurs written on the message boards of their dorm room doors, drew national attention, especially after Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria addressed cadets and cadet candidates at the Colorado Springs Campus, saying, "If you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, then get out." (iStock photo)

National Security

Racial hoax: Supposed victim at Air Force prep school actually wrote the notes

Todd Shepherd · November 8, 2017 4:14 pm