Air Force

From “Rainbow Flights” to “Secret Squirrel Stuff,” Air Force slang is hilarious, sharp, and only makes sense if you’ve worn the uniform.

Gen. David Allvin will retire in November, ending his term early as Air Force chief amid sweeping Pentagon leadership changes.

The bomb didn’t just flatten a city—it ripped a hole in the world so deep that eight decades later, we’re still peering into the abyss and pretending it’s not staring back.

The VA isn’t treating veterans — it’s sedating them into silence, one cocktail of mind-frying meds at a time.

Never before in history has any fighter jet carried an arsenal of up to 50 precision-guided air-to-air missiles—until now, as the U.S. Air Force transforms its frontline warbirds into drone-slaying platforms armed to the teeth with AGR-20F FALCOs.

With a résumé built on jet fuel and orbital math, capped with a political flamethrower—Matthew Lohmeier just landed one of the Pentagon’s top civilian jobs, and the Air Force might never be the same.

It wasn’t war, weather, or mechanical failure that nearly brought down Flight 3788—it was a blind sky, a bomber on autopilot, and a rural system running on hope and habit.

They wouldn’t have traded places with anybody, for anything—and that tells you everything you need to know.

If a sidearm can fire from a table without a finger on the trigger, it’s not a weapon—it’s a liability with a serial number.

While Kyiv burned under a record-breaking Russian drone assault and Hamas eyed a ceasefire deal with fingers crossed behind their back, President Trump saluted B-2 pilots at the White House—just not by name, because in 2025, even heroes have to hide. Welcome to Saturday, July 5th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

We did more than send a message—we carved it into the bedrock with a 30,000-pound pen named MOP and left Tehran to read it in the dark.

After the U.S. dropped bunker busters on Iran’s nuclear sites, Tehran fired off missile barrages at Israel, kicking off a brutal exchange that’s drawn in Washington, rattled the region, and made clear this fight is only getting hotter. Welcome to Sunday, June 22, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.