Signal Scandal Overshadows Confirmation Hearing for Air Force Secretary, Other Top Pentagon Nominees Four nominees, including President Donald Trump's pick to be Air Force secretary, appeared before the Senate Armed Services...
First Space Force Guardian Launched into Space Returns with Stranded Astronauts As the commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission, Col. Nick Hague traveled 72,553,920 miles, spent 171 days in space, and...
Lawmakers File Bills to Create Space National Guard, Taking Trump Up on Promise The creation of a Space National Guard is getting a groundswell of support from Congress as bipartisan groups of lawmakers...
Space Force Says It May Take 7 Years to Clean Up a Fuel Spill Atop a Sacred Hawaii Volcano The Space Force says environmental remediation efforts that include returning sacred soil back to a volcano in Hawaii after...
'Warheads on Foreheads': Top Leaders for Air Force, Space Force Leaning into Defense Secretary's Rhetoric Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin wanted to make it clear: The troops that he oversees will do whatever President...
Trump's Orders Curbing Government Spending Dwindle Attendance at Air Force Conference More attendees are wearing suits than fatigues. There are empty parking lots and no wait at the hotel coffee shop. Scattered...
Space Force Is Setting Up Its Own Service-Specific Recruiting Squadron The Space Force is planning to set up its own recruiting squadron and is even training its own Guardian recruiters to help...
They Stood Sentry over America's Nuclear Missile Arsenal. Many Worry It Gave Them Cancer. For years, it was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era missile alert facilities and launch control centers...
Service Was a Second Chance for the Space Force's Enlisted Leader. He Tried to Give Others the Same Shot. During his 33-year career, Roger Towberman was stationed everywhere from Hawaii to the United Kingdom until he was selected...
They Graduated Space Force Boot Camp. What Comes Next for Them, and the Service, Is Less Clear. Space Force continues to carve out its own identity after being created in 2019.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
