After a record-breaking 780 days circling the Earth, the U.S. Air Force’s mysterious X-37B unmanned space plane dropped out of orbit and landed safely on the same runway that the space shuttle once used. It was the fifth acknowledged mission for the vehicle, built by Boeing at the aerospace company’s Phantom Works. …
To the Air Force, it’s a “cover-center wall, troop compartment latrine . . . required to protect the aircraft from corrosion damage in the latrine area.” To the rest of us, it’s a toilet cover. And until recently, it had a price tag of $10,000. Officials said last week that the U.S. …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pair of President Donald Trump’s recent weekend trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort cost taxpayers more than $1.2 million, new documents released by a conservative group show. The documents made public Thursday by Judicial Watch are some of the first to put even part of a price …
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A 91-year-old veteran who was dismissed from the U.S. Air Force as “undesirable” in 1948 because he is gay has had that discharge status changed to “honorable.” The move by the Air Force comes in response to a lawsuit filed in November by H. Edward …
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A 91-year-old veteran who was dismissed from the U.S. Air Force as “undesirable” in 1948 because he’s gay is suing in Connecticut to have his discharge status upgraded. The federal lawsuit was filed Friday by H. Edward Spires against the secretary of the Air Force …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force is struggling to fill a shortage of 700 fighter pilots by the end of the year, even as the U.S. battles in three air wars against the Islamic State group in Iraq, Syria and Libya. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James also told …
(Reuters) – Former CIA Milan station chief Robert Seldon Lady is to ask Italy’s president to pardon him for kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric under the U.S. “extraordinary rendition” program, his lawyer was quoted as saying on Monday. Lady was among 23 Americans sentenced at an Italian trial in 2009, …
Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype’s role in China’s online surveillance apparatus. The 27-year-old computer-science graduate student at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque doesn’t speak Chinese, let alone follow Chinese politics. “I don’t really keep up with news in China that much,” …
(Reuters) – Iran responded to a 2010 cyber attack on its nuclear facilities by beefing up its own cyber capabilities, and will be a “force to be reckoned with” in the future, a senior U.S. Air Force official told reporters on Thursday. General William Shelton, who heads Air Force Space …
The news may look grim, but the United States is poised to remain the dominant power in the Middle East. The attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, this Sept. 11 echoed the worst moments of American impotence in the Middle East. They not …
Troops ease a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter into a U.S. Air Force C-5B Galaxy at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on Aug. 31. via Heading Home | U.S. | TIME.com.
In 1984, David A. Hemler walked off a U.S. Air Force base in Germany and just kept walking. If you’re going to go AWOL from the U.S. Air Force, there’s no sense in doing things halfway. On Feb. 10, 1984, distraught over a recently ended relationship and disgusted by the …