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A US Government-funded study has found the usually fatal sarin gas is to blame for Gulf War syndrome, which triggers symptoms including fatigue and chronic body pain.

A Tennessee school district announced that Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr., commander of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, has been hired as superintendent or “director” of schools in Hamblen County, Tenn.

The first instance of an Air Force general officer being convicted in a court-martial moved to its sentencing phase Monday, with the sister-in-law of Air Force Maj. Gen. William Cooley telling the court how the two-star general’s misconduct upended her life.

Cooley was convicted of abusive sexual contact in the first-ever military trial of an Air Force general.

Selection of a jury of two- and three-star generals starts Monday at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the court-martial of a former Air Force Research Laboratory commander accused of kissing and touching a woman without her consent.

A military advocacy group labeled changes to an test ‘an April Fool’s joke’ due to the scrapping of gender-neutral standards in a report released Thursday.

Hampton University named retired Lt. Gen. Darrell K. Williams as its next president. He’ll succeed William Harvey, who has served the university in that role since 1978.

The Aviation and Missile Command hosted the Redstone Arsenal Center of Excellence-Advance Planning Briefings to Industry, March 22-24.

“You think about, like, a picture's worth 1,000 words, the video clip’s worth a million words – well, how much is it worth to be able to literally experience it based on anywhere you are?”

The Air Force has identified the next commander of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — and that officer was ordered last year to be part of a jury in the historic court-martial of a two-star general.