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“You’re always looking for something to feel good about on deployments, especially when they’re rough. And he was that something for me.”

The Air Force tends to value technical proficiency as a mark of leadership, but that may be leaving noncommissioned officers without the right people skills.

The investigation found his comments did not constitute misconduct.

Sign me up for that.

A machine gun-toting rabbit may seem like an unusual choice for a mascot, but whimsy is a common feature of Air Force shoulder patches.

“They knew we were coming.”

Even in death, the F-35 continues to serve.

It might be time to try something different.

A comedian named Caroline Kennedy asked her fiancé, an Air Force F-35 pilot, all the fighter pilot questions the rest of us are too afraid to think about asking.

No cause of death was reported, but foul play or suicide are not suspected.

The Navy is reviewing whether or not to even decide to recover the jet.

Brand new HIMARS are sharing the field with World War I-style trenches and repurposed old motorcycles.

The USS Scranton’s now ex-CO joins more than half a dozen other officers relieved of command.

“If I have a soldier that’s been in the Army for five years, you can’t buy back that experience from them.”

We asked, and you answered.

While NCOs are considered the backbone of the military, the Air Force's backbone might have grown a bit too heavy in recent years.

“We just wanted to have our little spin on it and do it our way.”

An Army official said the situation “did not meet the criteria” for emergency leave.

"We in the killin’ Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin."

While China clearly is the pacing threat, that does not mean that conflict will take the form of a high-intensity war in the Pacific.