WASHINGTON — With the July 15 refueling of the A-10 Wartho…
WASHINGTON — The KC-46A Pegasus tanker program hit an important milestone Sunday with the successful first flight of its engineering test plane. The Boeing 767-2C, a test version of t…
Delays with development of a new Air Force tanker scheduled to be based and serviced in Oklahoma are causing turbulence at the Pentagon, but local leaders say they're not too…
Less than half of the Air Force's combat-coded squadrons are fully prepared for combat, top service officials told lawmakers on Wednesday. "While the specific numbers are classifie…
WASHINGTON — Ash Carter is on a clock. It's the widely acknowledged truth about his time as secretary of defense — a new president takes office in January 2017, likely…
Though Tampa’s MacDill Air Force Base isn’t on the latest short list of installations that could receive the new KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tankers, the announcement Tuesday by the Air…
Washington — Defense communities and their leaders take enormous pride in hosting and partnering with military installations, service members, military families and veterans. They also work hard to preserve the legacy…
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are lining up to decry an US Army plan to cut 40,000 and shrink the size of the force from 490,000 to 450,000 by 2017. The 450,000…
Troops' paychecks would continue uninterrupted even if the government shuts down later this week under a measure introduced in the House on Tuesday. The "Pay Our Military Act,"…