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The military first documented health concerns surrounding chemicals known as PFAS decades ago yet has continued to use firefighting foam made with them. Despite scores of lawsuits by its personnel and high rates of testicular cancer among troops, it has been slow to investigate a connection.

Gary Flook served in the Air Force for 37 years, as a firefighter at the now-closed Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois and the former Grissom Air Force Base in Indiana, where he regularly trained with aqueous film forming foam, or AFFF — a frothy white fire retardant that is highly effective but now known to be toxic.

The latest Red Flag exercise was the first to be combined with a Navy carrier strike group's pre-deployment workup off Southern California.

Air Force Combat Controllers may soon skip Combat Diver training during their grueling pipeline, a major change in producing the commandos.

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Turbulence and erroneous inputs on an F-35 fighter jet's control system are to blame for a crash at Hill Air Force Base last fall, according to a report from Air Combat Command.

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An investigation into last year's F-35A crash at Hill Air Force Base found data system errors caused the accident in which the pilot safely ejected.

It's the second time an Air Force F-35A has been destroyed in an accident since the jets began flying in 2012.

It's the second time an Air Force F-35A has been destroyed in an accident since the jets began flying in 2012.