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It’s time to fully fund the Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft
The defense budget is the place to stop the decline in the Air Force's size and capabilities and begin its rebuilding, the authors of this op-ed argue.
By Douglas A. Birkley and Heather Penney
The long road to an independent Air Force
The Air Force celebrates its 73rd birthday today. But its creation was controversial for decades.
By C.V. Glines. Aviation History
Second ex-CIA contractor testifies on interrogations in 9/11 case at Guantanamo
A former CIA contractor who helped design a harsh interrogation program following the the Sept. 11 attacks sought Friday to minimize the severity of techniques used on the men facing war crimes charges for their alleged roles in the plot.
Ex-CIA contractor defends post-9/11 interrogations
An architect of the brutal CIA interrogation and detention program developed after the Sept. 11 attacks defended the agency and its practices on Tuesday as those techniques become the focus of an effort to dismiss key evidence against five men charged in the terrorist plot.
What Soleimani’s death might mean for the National Defense Strategy and the next budget
The National Defense Strategy called for redirecting resources from the Middle East to invest in high-end technologies. Rising tensions with Iran threaten to pull the U.S. further into regional conflict.
By Aaron Mehta, Valerie Insinna and David B. Larter
Dover city officials may help those with polluted wells near Air Force base
Officials are preparing to send potable water to properties near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware after private wells were found to have chemical contaminants exceeding federal health advisory levels.
How a junior officer’s horrific death sparked reforms in Navy RHIB operations
Ensign Sarah Mitchell didn't die in vain.
Soldiers, families recall 2016 Fort Hood training accident that killed 9 troops
Current and former service members remember the fallen of a 2016 training accident that killed eight soldiers and a West Point cadet.
By David A. Bryant, Killeen (Texas) Daily Herald via the AP
Remains of WWII B-25 radio gunner identified
An airman from Massachusetts who died during World War II when his plane crashed in Southeast Asia has been accounted for using DNA evidence.
Following his husband’s suicide, a soldier took his own life while on leave for the funeral
Pvt. Aaron Mitchell, 21, was found dead while visiting home from South Korea, days after his husband died.
Fourth soldier dies from large IED blast in Afghanistan
The Pentagon has identified a fourth casualty from the improvised explosive device that claimed the lives of three special operations troops last week and left three other Americans wounded.
By Kyle Rempfer