What the Life of a Navy Fighter Pilot Really Looks Like It never occurred to Vincent Aiello that he could join the military and become a pilot until an eye-opening conversation with...
Marine Aviator Describes Historic F-35 Combat Sortie in Mission Against Yemen's Houthis After Maj. Zachary Sessa launched his F-35C Lightning II's payload at Houthi weapons storage facilities in Yemen last year...
A US Navy Captain Ordered a Military Funeral for a Kamikaze Pilot During WWII. Here's Why Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot...
Air Force Brings Back Flight Restrictions on Pregnant Crew Members in Policy Reversal The Air Force is rolling back policies that would allow pregnant aircrew members to fly early in their pregnancy and are...
Lessons Learned from Madame le General—Doctor, Pilot, Hero She was the woman in the floppy jungle hat, standing in front of a Hiller 360 helicopter—young, with a confident smile...
Last Surviving Pilot from the Battle of Britain, John 'Paddy' Hemingway, Dies at Age 105 The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who...
Clarence 'Bud' Anderson, Last World War II Triple Ace, Didn't Stop Flying Till Age 90 Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson died in his sleep at his home in Auburn, California, on May 17, 2024, just a little over a year...
Marine Corps Blames Pilot Error for Crash of Malfunctioning F-35 in South Carolina Forest An F-35B Lightning II fighter jet that crashed in South Carolina last year had an electrical malfunction, and the pilot...
Tuskegee Airman and Legendary World War II Fighter Pilot Harry Stewart Dies at 100 Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single...
Flight Testing the T-7A Red Hawk An Air Force test pilot with the 419th Flight Test Squadron describes the rigorous testing and development needed to...
Trump Pardons Former Army Officer Convicted of Disobeying COVID-19 Safety Rules President Trump pardoned a former junior Army officer who was found guilty in a 2022 court-martial of violating orders to...
He Was a Sailor. I, a Marine. Our Romance Was Forbidden by Regulation. I was the new “WM”—Woman Marine—on deck, and I felt the weight of all eyes watching me for every right or wrong move I made...
American Military Jeeps Are Rising from the Ashes in Vietnam A company called Van Daryl is rebuilding the Jeeps the American military left behind in Vietnam, and you’ll hardly recognize...
Pentagon Weighs Bigger Army as Service Sees Early Recruiting Success As of Monday, the Army had brought in 59,875 new active-duty enlisted soldiers with a total goal of 61,000 for fiscal 2025...
Space Command Headquarters in Colorado 'Not Sustainable' Without New Construction, GAO Finds The political fight over Space Command's future in either Alabama or Colorado has been a partisan tug-of-war for more than...