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Soldiers build nuke-detecting backpack
The backpack now allows soldiers to detect and analyze nuclear sites without an eight-hour cooldown period.
By Todd South
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US to destroy its last chemical weapons
The weapons’ destruction alleviates a concern that civic leaders in Colorado and Kentucky admit was always in the back of their minds.
By Andrew DeMillo, Thomas Peipert and Dylan Lovan, AP
Air Force tries flight-hour cap, flexible test scores to diversify officer candidates
Considering only 60 flight hours would result in about 70 more qualified Hispanic candidates, 47 more women and 26 more Black candidates over 12 years.
Spec ops continued despite COVID-19; Airman of the Year 2021 devised a way to keep aircrew virus-free
Last year put Senior Master Sgt. Jeremy Mayo's two decades of experience to the test, with missions that didn’t stop for the pandemic.
Best pics of the week: June 20, 2021
USS Lassen steams in the Atlantic, CH-53E maintenance at Fallon, fast-rope from a CH-47 at the African Lion exercise, and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
New Air Force teams to look at LGBTQ, indigenous inclusion issues
The Air Force is adding two new groups to its slate of teams working to create equitable policies for minority employees, this time focusing on the LGBTQ and native communities.
New report explores ways to fix the aircrew flight equipment career field
More than a decade after the Air Force created its aircrew flight equipment specialty, the field is suffering from a lack of expertise.
Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dies at 97
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the “right stuff” when in 1947 he became the first person to fly faster than sound, has died. He was 97.
HASC Chair Adam Smith on a Democrat-led NatSec policy, modernization and a ‘500-ship Navy’
Expect artificial intelligence, command-and-control and survivability to be watchwords in the House Armed Services Committee going forward.
By Joe Gould
Trump awards Army aircrews who rescued hundreds during California wildfire
"I spoke to some people that really didn’t want you to do it. They didn’t want you to go back on those flights," Pres. Trump said Monday.
By Kyle Rempfer