US Air Force News

Gulf Coast officials are working together to land a federal contract to build nearly 200 refueling tankers for the Air Force, a multibillion-dollar deal that could create tens of thousands of jobs and jump-start an effort to create an aviation and space business corridor in the Southeast.

United States Air Force Academy glasses " a total of 8 glasses, brand new and never used.

U.S. Coast Guard crews help locate 24 aboard three canoes near Chuuk; search continues for one canoe with six aboard, Nov.

The divorce rate in the armed forces increased slightly again in the past year as military marriages continued to bear the stress of the nation's ninth year at war.

There has been an emotional send off for the Air Force veteran killed by an artillery shell last week.

Six relatives of 257 people killed during an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight to Antarctica 30 years ago returned to the crash site on Friday to mark the anniversary.

An audience member at "The Jay Leno Show" is especially grateful this Thanksgiving.

TOPEKA, Kan. - The latest round of state budget cuts have prompted the head of Kansas' National Guard to do his own version of base realignment and closure.

President Barack Obama enjoyed a quiet first Thanksgiving at the White House , telephoning U.S. servicemen and women stationed around the world and spending time in the company of his family and friends.

The family of a Fort Lewis soldier who died in a non-combat shooting in Iraq says she was killed execution-style, with a bullet in the back of the head.

The US Air Force plans to buy a whopping 2200 PlayStation 3 games consoles which it will use to expand an existing PS3-based supercomputer.

NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., are preparing to launch the most advanced infrared astronomy probe to date - the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

A Swiss lab has developed a way of establishing how someone died without damaging the evidence.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. a " The Coast Guard has ended the search for a 17-year-old boy who went missing after a boat ran aground in Santa Barbara County.One person died and another was injured when the 40-foot 'Scarlet Begonia' went aground Monday night near Purisima Point.

If you feel like you're prepping to feed an army of relatives on Thursday, imagine what the Army feels like.

President Pratibha Patil today made history by taking off in a frontline Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet aircraft from the air force base in Pune, becoming the first woman head of state to fly in a warplane.

An unmanned NASA Predator aircraft equipped with an infrared imaging sensor has flown over large areas burned by two California wildfires to help the Forest Service assess damage, the administration said Tuesday.

The leaders of the Pentagon's review board on the Fort Hood, Texas, rampage reported for duty here today to begin their 45-day investigation to what led to the mass shooting, a Pentagon official said.

An unattended bag of construction materials caused a partial evacuation at Langley Air Force Base today, but no one was injured and the package was deemed to be harmless.

Five people were killed in a plane crash near Pisa airport in northwestern Italy, the country's air force said on Monday.