Air Force Is Offering Up to $600,000 in New Bonuses to Keep Experienced Aviators on the Job The Air Force is dangling another round of hefty bonuses that could range anywhere from $45,000 to $600,000 as an incentive...
Aviation Career Incentive Pay for Officers If you are an active-duty commissioned officer on aviation duty, you are entitled to Aviation Career Incentive Pay.
The History of Aviator Call Signs and How Pilots Get Their New Name For every pilot flying an aircraft in the military, there is a story behind their call sign that they probably wouldn't want...
The Triumph and Tragedy of Coast Guard Search and Rescue The secret to success in military aviation, especially a specialty as stressful as search and rescue, is...
The Air Force’s Lifesaving U-2 Space Suit Is Evolving to Meet Modern Challenges The key is to keep pilots safe and comfortable no matter how the suits are crafted.
The Air Force Has Fixed Its Active-Duty Maintainer Shortage, SecAF Says In 2016, the Air Force said it was short about 4,000 maintainers across its ranks.
Air Force Identifies Pilots Killed, Injured in Latest T-38 Trainer Crash The crash was the 5th in 12 months involving a T-38.
Marine Corps' Last Prowler Aircraft Return from Final Combat Deployment The EA-6B Prowler, which has jammed enemy radars since the Vietnam War, has deployed overseas for the last time.
Air Force to Double Number of Combat Aviation Advisors The expansion comes at a time when the U.S. military generally uses smaller teams in remote regions of the world.
Guard Says Shrinking Active Duty Hurts Reserves The director of the Air National Guard said he opposes any plan that would simply shrink the Air Force's active-duty end...
Hegseth Orders End to Race Consideration in Admissions at Military Service Academies Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military service academies to no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex for...
'Billion Dollar Spy' Is the Real Story of the Only Russian Agent Whose Portrait Hangs in CIA Headquarters The upcoming film, based on a book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman, stars Russell Crowe, Tony Goldwyn...
Pentagon Moves Out on Transgender Ban After Supreme Court Ruling About 1,000 service members who volunteered to leave the military after the Trump administration unveiled its transgender...
Soviet-Era Spacecraft Plunges to Earth After 53 Years Stuck in Orbit The chances of anyone getting clobbered by spacecraft debris were exceedingly low, scientists said.
Lessons Not Learned As this is being written on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the final end of the Vietnam War, that history is...