Category: Air Force

The Air Force will be implementing a fresh approach to physical fitness by letting Airmen choose their own PT test. Will it work?

A federal judge in Texas has just stopped the COVID vaccine mandate in its tracks when it comes to punishing service members for requesting religious waivers against taking the vaccination. The judge charges in the injunction that the Navy system used to process religious waivers is a farce with rejection already predetermined.

“So many people have dreams and they never follow through on them.” so Lawn Chair Larry followed his dream and flew with his weather balloons.

An Israeli airstrike in the Syrian port of Latakia during the early hours of Tuesday morning hit the port’s container facility in the second attack on the port this month. “At around 3:21 am [0121 GMT], the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression with several missiles from the direction of the Mediterranean … targeting […]

Israel has been bombing targets in Syria for decades that it perceives as a threat to its own security. Most famously, their 2007 raid that destroyed a North Korean-built nuclear reactor in Deir al-Zour province. A story in the Washington Post now claims that Israeli aircraft have made repeated strikes on chemical weapons productions and storage facilities within Syria.

The Takuba Special Operations Task Force, comprised of French Special Operations troops has killed a key leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) for his part in the murders of six civilian aid workers and two guides in Niger in 2020.

The air war over Europe was a bloody affair for Allied pilots flying bombing missions over occupied Europe and Germany. Large bomber formations were savaged by flak and/or German fighters. Losses were so heavy that any crew that survived 25 missions were sent home. Few did. Things would soon change, however, as the P-51 Mustang […]

Brian Hudson gives a funny take on how deploying to so many bases and so many places make it hard to remember sometimes where you actually are settled in finally.

Israeli F-16s bomb Syria’s largest airport leaving three perfectly spaced craters 600 meters apart on the runway. This is the latest in a series of attacks by Israel on the Iranian presence within Syria.

Congress had to step in to assure Honorable discharges for service members who refused to get the vaccine citing religious and medical concerns. The DoD was preparing to court martial those who refused which amounted to them being convicted of a felony in a civilian court.

Syrian state media claims that Syrian Democratic Forces led by U.S. troops killed civilians and took hostages during a large airborne operation in al-Busayrah, Syria that was aimed at killing or capturing a known ISIS member.

Finland is the latest European country to buy the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter in an $11.3 Billion contract, rejecting the Boeing FA-18 Super Hornet, and other fighters offered by France, England, and Sweden.