SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 - The Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen for 2024 were recognized and honored during the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Maryland, Sept. 14-18. The 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year (alphabetically listed, by rank and command of assignment when selected) are: Senior Master Sgt. Sarah E. Buckley, … [Read more...]
Alaska National Guard Rescues 2 from Plane Crash
Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 210th Rescue Squadron train HH-60G Pave Hawk operations Sept. 6, 2024, at JBER. The HH-60 is the Department of Defense's only dedicated rotary-wing combat search and rescue platform. (Alaska Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph Moon). SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 - Alaska Air National Guard 176th Wing members conducted two missions in … [Read more...]
Newly Named Nuclear Submarine USS Baltimore
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 - The Navy revealed that its next Virginia-class, nuclear-powered submarine, SSN-812, will be called the USS Baltimore. The service also announced that Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks would serve as the vessel's sponsor. During a naming ceremony aboard the historic USS Constellation, a Navy warship built in 1854 that now serves as a museum ship in … [Read more...]
National POW/MIA Recognition Day
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024 - On this National POW/MIA Recognition Day, we honor our service members who never made it home. These brave heroes and their sacrifice will never be forgotten. The Defense Department remembers and honors those Americans who were prisoners of war and those who served and never returned home. DOD's POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues the search for … [Read more...]
Space Force Agrees to New Framework
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024 - Readiness-based support and a formal governance structure for aligning supply requirements are expected benefits of a new agreement between the Space Force and Defense Logistics Agency. DLA Director Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly and Space Force Chief Operations Officer Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, signed the agreement Sept. 18 at the Air, Space and Cyber … [Read more...]