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Gowen Field will be buzzing with activity starting Monday as the Idaho Air National Guard begins hosting six F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to the Arizona Air National Guard. The jets are assigned to the 195th Fighter Squadron, 162nd Wing, in Tucson, Ariz., and will be in Idaho from June 14-25 to train with A-10s from the Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron. All flight operation will occur during normal daylight hours. In addition...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman Steven Horsford (D-NV-04) joined his colleagues on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee to host a hearing on the current and future U.S. Army programs for tactical wheeled vehicles (TWVs). This was Congressman Horsford’s first official hearing as the newest member of the subcommittee.

By Charles Pope, Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs / Published May 25, 2021 WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Frank Kendall told the Senate Armed Services Committee May 25 that if he is confirmed as the 26th Secretary of the Air Force he will continue reshaping the Air and Space forces to confront near-peer adversaries such as China, nurture the Space Force’s successful evolution and ensure that Airmen, Guardians and their families are well served. “If confirmed, my priorities ...

By Charles Pope, Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs / Published May 25, 2021 WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Frank Kendall told the Senate Armed Services Committee May 25 that if he is confirmed as the 26th Secretary of the Air Force he will continue reshaping the Air and Space forces to confront near-peer adversaries such as China, nurture the Space Force’s successful evolution and ensure that Airmen, Guardians and their families are well served. “If confirmed, my priorities ...

Pilot dies after military contract aircraft crashes after take off from Air Force base near Vegas A pilot has died after an aircraft operated by a military contractor out of Nellis Air Force Base crashed in a nearby residential area The crash occurred about 2.30pm about 7 miles (11 kilometers) northeast of downtown Las Vegas Florida-based company Draken US owned the aircraft, and said in a statement that the pilot had died and no one else was on board Nellis is best known as host of periodic t...

By Charles Pope, Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs / Published May 25, 2021 WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Frank Kendall told the Senate Armed Services Committee May 25 that if he is confirmed as the 26th Secretary of the Air Force he will continue reshaping the Air and Space forces to confront near-peer adversaries such as China, nurture the Space Force’s successful evolution and ensure that Airmen, Guardians and their families are well served. “If confirmed, my priorities ...

Nellis Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force) 24 May 2021 A pilot with aerospace defense contractor Draken International died after one of its aircraft assigned to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, crashed in north Las Vegas around 2:30 p.m. local time, according to base officials. The aircraft was owned and operated by Draken U.S., and used in support of adversary air training, base officials said Monday. The Florida-based company confirmed that the pilot died in the crash. “The pilot’s identity ha...

Article content Lieutenant-commander Alex Dietrich is, by her own admission, a highly rational person. A U.S. Navy fighter pilot who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, she now teaches at the U.S. Naval Academy. She has also had one of the most famous close encounters with a UFO. On Nov. 14, 2004, Lt.-Cdr. Dietrich was stationed off the coast of southern California on the USS Nimitz carrier, when numerous unidentified flying objects were picked up by ship radar, having dropped a distan...

After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer – OSIRIS-REx – spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On May 10 at 3:23 p.m., the spacecraft fired its main engines full throttle for seven minutes – its most significant maneuver since it arrived at Bennu in 2018. This burn thrust the spacecraft away from the asteroid at 600...