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Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida was hit hard by Hurricane Michael two weeks ago. Before the base was destroyed by the hurricane, the Air Force was able to get at least 33 planes, in a fleet of 55 F-22 stealth fighters threatened by the storm, to...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Oct 26, 2018 at 11:22 AM PDT
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A few days ago the US Air Force announced their choice for the aircraft that will be used as an advanced trainer for Air Force pilots. It’s the design offered up by Boeing and SAAB. According to Air Force Magazine…
Boeing and Saab jointly...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Oct 05, 2018 at 12:49 PM PDT
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Veterans United March is being held this Saturday, October 6th, 2018 starting at 12pm/noon.
Veterans United March is a nonpartisan/grassroots event being held Saturday, October 6th 2018 in Downtown St. Louis (near the Arch) Missouri. The march/walk...
by Roodhouse
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on Sun Sep 30, 2018 at 04:11 PM PDT
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President Trump is desperate to make his mark. So desperate that he personally sat down in the Oval Office to hammer out a deal with Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg to scrap the current 747s used as Air Force One for ones that he designed – with what is...
by maymebarth
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on Fri Jul 13, 2018 at 04:52 AM PDT
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The KC-46 is in the news again. I can’t think of a better example of how not to buy an aircraft.
This mess goes back to 2002 when the Air Force announced it was going to lease 100 modified 767’s from Boeing. People actually went to prison over that...
by Major Kong
54 comments
on Sat Jul 14, 2018 at 03:12 PM PDT
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If I asked you to name the greatest tank killer of the Gulf War, you’d probably guess the A-10, and you’d be wrong.
No, the largest number of armored vehicle kills in that conflict belongs to the much maligned F-111. The plane the Navy didn’t want...
by Major Kong
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on Fri Jun 22, 2018 at 12:25 PM PDT
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Remember Donald Trump’s magical plan to turn $200 billion in federal money... hey, presto!... into $1.5 trillion in investment...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Jun 04, 2018 at 08:12 AM PDT
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Way back during the Stone Age when I was a young bright-eyed soldier serving in the Army in Germany, searching for the glory I had found in John Wayne movies, I discovered that soldiering was not ...
by Mark E Andersen
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on Sun Feb 11, 2018 at 08:00 AM PST
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The Background
Back in October, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) received several emails regarding an exhibit on display at the Air Force’s Enlisted Heritage Hall, a museum at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama showcasing the...
by ChrisRodda
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on Fri Dec 15, 2017 at 07:05 AM PST
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By now, we know that the Texas church shooting happened in large part because the Air Force failed to enter Devin Patrick Kelley’s court-martial for his horrific attack on his wife and infant stepson into the national database for background checks....
by Christian Dem in NC
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on Wed Nov 08, 2017 at 05:41 PM PST
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For much of the last 24 hours, questions abounded about how Devin Patrick Kelley got his hands on the gun that killed 26 people. After all, he had been court-martialed by the Air Force in 2012 for a horrific attack on his wife and infant stepson—a move...
by Christian Dem in NC
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on Mon Nov 06, 2017 at 05:20 PM PST
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No, this isn’t a story about the current situation with North Korea. It’s about another kind of unbelievable story — a story exhibited in a museum run by the U.S. Air Force that is so far-fetched that it is completely impossible to believe.
On...
by ChrisRodda
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on Wed Nov 01, 2017 at 06:41 AM PDT
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I’m sure we were all suitably shocked a few days ago when the story came out that the Air Force was putting B-52s back on “full nuclear alert”.
This story has since been refuted, so we can all stop digging our backyard fallout shelters for the time...
by Major Kong
213 comments
on Thu Oct 26, 2017 at 06:24 AM PDT
with 205 Recommends
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It seems like events are moving faster than I can report on them. I start working on a hurricane-hunters diary when California burns to the ground. I start writing about airborne firefighting and now this happens. Don’t worry, I’ll get to those when I...
by Major Kong
215 comments
on Tue Oct 24, 2017 at 10:52 AM PDT
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Based on a report in Defense One that was picked up by numerous news agencies and others, including this diary at Daily Kos, it has been assumed by some that the United States is returning to the Cold War era practice of having B-52 bombers armed with...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Oct 24, 2017 at 02:54 PM PDT
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Last week, Donald Trump signed a new executive order that’s being widely interpreted as allowing the Air Force to pull in pilots to fill between 75 and 100 critical open seats. However, the number actually called up could be far larger.
President...
by Mark Sumner
232 comments
on Mon Oct 23, 2017 at 07:36 AM PDT
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My last op-ed began with a quote by H.G Wells: Human history becomes more and more, a race between education and catastrophe.
Damn right. As Founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), I’ve worked day in, day out,...
by Mikey Weinstein
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on Wed Oct 04, 2017 at 01:53 PM PDT
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There is a new — as in he’s been there less than 30 days — commander of the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. This is him: Lieutenand General Jay B. Silveria.
He’s a three-star, a command pilot with more than 3,900 hours, a veteran of the...
by BlackSheep1
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on Fri Sep 29, 2017 at 03:02 PM PDT
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The Air Force Times is reporting on a particularly depressing event that took place earlier this week at the Air Force Academy preparatory school.
Lt. Col. Allen Herritage, director of public affairs for the academy, said the slurs were...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Sep 28, 2017 at 11:38 AM PDT
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(UPDATE: Chaplain Hernandez is being investigated by the Air Force Inspector General, with oversight by the Department of Defense Inspector General.)
According to a highly misleading September 19 article from Stars and Stripes, the Air Force...
by ChrisRodda
37 comments
on Thu Sep 21, 2017 at 10:44 AM PDT
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