Lackland Air Force Base News

"Canines with Courage" was an unusual, understated 2013 Rose Parade entry for Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Pet Foods.

Air Force Sgt. Louis Clever, who grew up in Freeport, holds his then-5-year-old son Paul in this 1968 portrait taken at the family home in Georgia.

The 31st annual veterans memorial service will be held Sunday at Clark's Grove United Methodist Church in Irish Valley.

Miami International Airport on Friday will unveil a new canine training area for the Miami-Dade Police's Airport District canine unit.

"We must do everything we can to put an end to these abuses. They are ruining the lives of thousands of patriotic women who wanted only to serve their country but fell prey to men who abused positions of power.' Recent allegations of sexual assault by members of our armed forces have refocused national attention on a problem that is sadly ... (more)

Swansea resident Justin Thurber reached the highest rank of a civilian Air Force reserve when he was promoted to chief master sergeant during ceremonies held at the Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee on May 4. A 21-year veteran of the Air Force reserve was one of 17 senior master sergeants to apply for the position, and the youngest.

Airman 1st Class James Trevor Maher recently graduated form Basic Military Training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

For almost every workday over the past ten months, a 35-year-old first lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard has done little more than sit in the Lackland Air Force Base library.

The Air Force is scanning the market for "cyber warfare systems" tools, in an acknowledgment of the need to open up the opaque and inaccessible space to new players, documents show.

Army Pvt. Kyle Alcarez has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.

In this June 22, 2012, image made from video, female airmen march during graduation at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.

Lawmakers say they're outraged that for the second time this month a member of the armed forces assigned to help prevent sexual assaults in the military is under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.

Hagel informed Obama of latest sex abuse case Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press.

A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation for "abusive sexual contact" and other alleged misconduct and has been suspended from his duties, the Army announced Tuesday.

Day, June 6, 1944, Omaha Beach, Normandy. Staff Sgt. Robert Brant, U.S. Army, started his journey across France and ended it in the Rhineland a year later.

Unreported sexual assaults soared in the ranks last year even as the problem has reached The White House.

In Alaska, law enforcement officials are fuming after a military jury this month convicted a Marine Corps recruiter of first-degree sexual assault in the rape of a 23-year-old female civilian but did not send him to prison.

The pattern is all too familiar. Rocked by sexual abuse within its ranks - 1992 at Tailhook, 1996 at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, 2002 at the Air Force Academy, 2011 at Lackland Air Force Base - the military vows no tolerance and promises action.

Sexual predators filled last week's news. Three young women broke free from a Cleveland house where they had been imprisoned as sex slaves for a decade.

This has been a distressing week for the U.S. military and its proud tradition of dedicated service to mission and comrades.