How to Land an F-35B on an Aircraft Carrier A former U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B-turned-F-35B Lighting II pilot details efforts to develop a formal landing signal officer...
The Fighter Pilot Podcast: A Veterans Day Tribute This Veterans Day, we’re taking a walk down memory lane, revisiting some of our most memorable episodes from among the nearly...
Tuskegee Airmen, WASP History Will Stay in Air Force Boot Camp Curriculum Following Outcry The Air Force is resuming its boot camp lessons about trailblazing Black and female World War II pilots after the material...
How the First Female Pilot to Die on Active Duty with the US Military Cultivated Her Love of Flying Women Airforce Service Pilots, created in August 1943 after WAFS and WFTD merged, flew at 126 military bases, handling 80% of...
The Osprey's Safety Issues Spiked over Five Years and Caused Deaths. Pilots Still Want to Fly It The Osprey is back in the air after being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight U.S. service...
Congress Eyes Top Honor for Navy Pilot Who Was Second-Longest Ever US Military POW Lawmakers are working to award the Congressional Gold Medal to retired Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr., who spent eight and a half...
It Took 8 Deployments, 3 Pregnancies, and $43,700 in IVF Treatments for Kristin and Joe to Have Their Baby Military service members do not receive funding for assisted reproductive services unless their fertility issues are a direct...
Bronze Statue of Tuskegee Airman Found After Theft from Detroit City Park The statue of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson was reported missing Wednesday evening from Rouge Park on Detroit's far west side...
Navy Aviators Killed in Growler Crash near Mount Rainier Were Decorated Combat Veterans Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay "Miley" Evans, a naval flight officer, and Lt. Serena "Dug" Wileman, a naval aviator, both 31 years old and...
How These US Military Aviators Became the First to Fly Around the World To say the least, the eight Army Air Force aviators who departed Seattle on April 6, 1924, did not face an easy assignment.
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...