Discover the history behind the establishment of the U.S. Air Force on September 18, 1947. Learn how decades of innovation, World War II air power, and President Truman's National Security Act created ...

After World War II, the Cold War highlighted the need for a capable air service to counter the Soviet threat—resulting in the Air Force’s creation on 1947.

Global Strike Command says it inspected about 8,000 of the handguns after the death of an airman in July. That death is under ...

Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland’s so-called Security Hill complex, one of the area’s most secretive military facilities, has been in the news as Port San Antonio courts the Air Force with its idea to ...

From concerts and balls to commemorative flights, the U.S. military community is celebrating the day that the U.S. Air Force became an independent branch of the military, 77 years ago. The Department ...

Col. Charles Gates, USAFR, serves as the individual mobilization augmentee to the chief of security forces at Air Mobility ...

The head of the Department of the Air Force's recruiting efforts, who has overseen the service's turnaround from missing its goal for the first time since 1999 to hitting it three months early, ...

The airman killed in an M18 pistol discharge incident that led Air Force Global Strike Command to indefinitely halt use of the firearm was a 21-year-old security forces specialist from Kentucky, ...

The Air Force has approved 78 jobs to receive special duty assignment pay for 2025, an increase from the 70 for 2024, but also coming in a year when the service is planning to cut funding to the ...

Security forces at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base shot and killed a civilian who attempted to illegally enter the base in a car late at night yesterday. The incident happened at approximately 2:30 a.m.

Air Force officials are investigating an incident in which a Security Forces airman stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona killed a civilian who attempted to enter the base early Friday ...