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.
The Unbelievable Way Allied Pilots 'Rammed' Nazi Cruise Missiles Out of the Sky Nicknamed "buzz bombs" because of the distinctive sound of their pulsejet engines, the V1 created the drain on morale their...
Newly Trained Air Force Pilots Must Consider Jobs Outside Flying Fighters or Bombers Due to Manning Shortfall A new Air Force policy may require recent T-38 Talon pilot training graduates to fly aircraft other than fighters or bombers...
I Was an Air Force Fighter Pilot. Now I Help Addicts in Prison Turn Their Lives Upside Down. Thirty years after my jet-flying days, I suddenly landed hard inside the concrete walls of San Quentin State Prison: 26 years...
Portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with Slave Rehung at West Point The reinstallation marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to reverse the work of a congressionally mandated...
How the Men on a Navy Submarine Survived After Sinking 240 Feet in the Atlantic Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus...
All Services Now Issue Form DD214-1 to Departing Reservists The military's reserve components now issue departing reservists a new record that summarizes their periods of active and...
From Jackson to McKinley: What Trump's Shift of Presidential Hero Says About His Evolving Goals Trump's shift, rather than merely swapping one infatuation for another, demonstrates how his mindset and priorities have...
Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Naval Aviator and Corrupt Appropriator, Dies at 83 Cunningham, a California Republican, joined the Navy at age 25 and during the Vietnam War became the first “ace,” an honor...
