Students perform a fuels landing gear inspection during the F-16 Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice Course in Hangar 1040 at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. The Air Force is expanding direct hire ...

Lt. Gen. John Healy, the new head of Air Force Reserve Command, receives applause after taking the reins during a ceremony at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, Aug. 3. Healy previously served as the ...

The Air Force may change some standards, such as allowing some hand and neck tattoos, to help with recruitment, a major challenge hitting all the service branches hard. Lt. Gen. John Healy, head of ...

Members of the 130th Airlift Wing perform aeromedical evacuation drills at McLaughlin Air National Guard Base in Charleston, West Virginia. (Edwin L. Wriston/Army National Guard) When a Guard or ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wa. – U.S. Army Reserve soldiers and U.S. Air Force Reserve airmen teamed up to conduct an air deployment readiness exercise April 4, 2024. The training event began when ...

Though one might imagine the “Air National Guard” as a secondary force using refurbished equipment to defend America’s borders, it regularly deploys to conflict zones with modern fighter jets.

Facing high retention rates, the U.S. Air Force is expanding its voluntary force management programs in an effort to transfer some airmen into the Reserve. The programs are available to officers and ...

If you think the Air Force Reserve just chills on the sidelines, you just might want to read on. As Airmen prepare to ring in the 70 th Anniversary of Air Force Reserve Command, it seems fitting to ...

Maintainers from the 23rd Air Expeditionary Wing perform a post flight inspection on an A-10 Thunderbolt II during Operation Forward Tiger at Muniz Air National Guard Base, Puerto Rico, Feb. 16, 2023.

An Air Force reservist in Ohio may have a unique insight on that age-old barroom debate, “which service should I join?” Air Force Reserve Staff Sgt. Robert Meyers has spent 12 years in the military, ...

PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Florida -- There may be darker days ahead for the Air Force's most active Reserve unit as a looming pilot shortage and shortfalls in related career fields create challenges ...