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Air Force’s longest-deployed planes finally get to retire
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (331+ words) By Matt White, Nicholas Slayton Published Sep 12, 2026 4:39 PM EDT The last of the Air Force’s longest-deployed airplanes finally retired earlier this month, as the last in-service EC-130H Compass Call electronic warfare plane took its final flight over Arizona. For its…...
Air Force pilot receives top safety award for saving F-22
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (363+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 11:41 AM EDT A F-22 pilot had to think quickly and work out a plan to save his plane when a tribute flight went wrong. After losing a landing wheel, Capt. Michael Cloninger of the 90th Fighter Squadron had to find…...
Soldier awarded Bronze Star with ‘V’ for actions after Iranian drone strike in Kuwait
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (378+ words) Published Sep 11, 2026 5:16 PM EDT A soldier was awarded a Bronze Star for valor in the wake of a deadly Iranian drone strike on a U.S. Army operations center in Kuwait at the start of the war with Iran. On March 1, Iran…...
Military publishes handbook on how to identify, react to, and hide from drones
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (365+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 2:58 PM EDT A new handbook gives troops pointers on how to scan the sky for drones, how to estimate the length of a football field, and reminders that innocuous things like the shine of their glasses or left-behind…...
Combat troops now need to score at least 70% on fitness tests
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (305+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 9:00 AM EDT Military members in jobs deemed to be closest to combat will have to keep up higher scores on their annual fitness tests under new Pentagon rules, though each service will decide on its own what those…...
These are the combat arms jobs that have a new fitness test
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (397+ words) Published Sep 9, 2026 8:00 AM EDT More than 80 military occupations are now designated as combat arms and require a combat field test be completed in addition to their standard service fitness test. The Army’s 23 listed occupations span infantry, combat engineers, diving, field…...
Vermont F-35 wing returns home after 9-month deployment across two hemispheres
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (366+ words) Published Sep 9, 2026 11:26 AM EDT Pilots and crews of the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing returned home Sunday from a deployment that began before last Christmas and sent the unit into combat in two hemispheres. The extended stint away from…...
These are the military’s combat arms jobs that have a new fitness test
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (397+ words) Published Sep 9, 2026 8:00 AM EDT More than 80 military occupations are now designated as combat arms and require a combat field test be completed in addition to their standard service fitness test. The Army’s 23 listed occupations span infantry, combat engineers, diving, field…...
What the Iran war is teaching the US about air superiority
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (620+ words) Published Sep 8, 2026 9:26 AM EDT How is this possible? The U.S. and Israel destroyed much of Iran’s conventional air force and high-end missile defenses in the year leading up to the war and in its opening days. And if this is what…...
Marine Corps offering up to $15,000 for enlisting in electronic, cyber fields
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (208+ words) Published Sep 7, 2026 7:30 AM EDT The Marine Corps is continuing its push to bring in recruits to fill high-tech jobs, once again offering up to $15,000 in enlistment bonuses, as the service works to build out its cyber and electronic warfare force....