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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jewel Favreau, assigned to the 97th Security Forces Squadron, fills out a promotion testing form on May 20, 2020 at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (Tech. Sgt. Kenneth W. Norman/Air Force)

Air Force enlisted promotion tests to go paperless in January 2024

“We are finally, after years and years and years of trying to do this, getting rid of the Scantrons."

By Rachel S. Cohen

20 months ago

Staff Sgt. Donoven Wright, 43rd Fighter Generation Squadron, checks AIM-120 fins during the unit’s weapons load competition Feb. 11 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. (Samuel King Jr./Air Force)

Air Force to end preferred basing for enlisted as it changes how airmen find new jobs

The "base of preference" program's last day is May 31.

By Rachel S. Cohen

3 years ago

Excerpt from ‘The Eagles of Heart Mountain’ by Bradford Pearson

Bradford Pearson's “The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America” is a never-before-told tale about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team.

By Bradford Pearson

4 years ago

2,000-plus attend funeral of Florida veteran with no kin

Most of the 2,000-plus people who gathered in the Florida heat Tuesday didn't know Edward Pearson. They knew little, if anything, about the life of the 80-year-old Army veteran.

6 years ago

Public invited to Florida funeral for Army veteran who had no family

A Florida funeral home is inviting the public to attend the funeral of an 80-year-old Army veteran who had no immediate family.

6 years ago

Wife’s body found after police kill estranged husband, a former Army Ranger

The body of a missing woman was found in Arkansas, one day after police fatally shot her estranged, rifle-toting husband near a popular shopping area in Kansas City, Kansas, authorities said Wednesday.

6 years ago