In the US Air Force, there are currently fewer than 100 active members of the special-operations security force known as DAGRE, or Deployed Aircraft Ground Response Element. These specially trained ...

Special tactics operators communicate with a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to 437th Airlift Wing during Mission Generation Exercise 23 at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 5. (Tech. Sgt. Carly Kavish/Air Force) ...

Air Force Lt. Col. Phillip “Clean” Bourquin, 99th Flying Training Squadron director of operations, and Steve “Bull” Schmidt, Boeing test pilot, prepare to disembark the T-7A Red Hawk after its ...

The T-7 Red Hawk is meant to teach student pilots how to fly fifth-generation aircraft such as the F-35. Air Force officials laid out their plans for teaching instructor pilots on the T-7, and then ...

Future Air Force Combat Controllers may soon be skipping a major portion of their traditional training pipeline, forgoing the chance to earn a combat diver “scuba bubble.” Air Force Special Operations ...

U.S. Air Force Air Commandos from Air Force Special Operations Command trained alongside Czech Air Force and Royal Air Force service members during Exercise Emerald Warrior 25.2, held across Arizona, ...

Work will start this summer on a Pentagon “mega-project” in Alaska intended to boost the Air Force’s training capability to defend North America. The 150,000-square-foot Joint Integrated Test and ...

Air Force instructor pilots from the 71st Flying Training Wing conduct formation flying training in the T-6 Texan II aircraft over Enid, Okla., June 9. They participate in continuation training ...