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Gen. CQ Brown, now Air Force chief of staff, appeared to draw broad support from senators considering his nomination to be the next Joint Chiefs chairman.

Gen. CQ Brown, now Air Force chief of staff, appeared to draw broad support from senators considering his nomination to be the next Joint Chiefs chairman.

Adversary air contractor Top Aces says it's focusing on future technologies and experience to differentiate itself from the competition.

PIERRE — Growing up in southeast South Dakota, Mark Morrell looked to the skies for his childhood dream.

Combat Archer is designed to give fighter squadrons a final evaluation before deployments that could see them in real air-to-air engagements.

Under the Compass Call Rehost program, the electronic attack mission is transitioning from the EC-130H to the EC-37B, with deliveries slated to begin later this year.

The Air Force fighter pilot tapped to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff got his call sign by ejecting from a burning F-16 fighter jet high above the Florida Everglades and falling into the watery sludge below. It was January 1991, and then-Capt. CQ Brown Jr. had just enough time in his parachute above alligator-full wetlands. He landed in the muck, which coated his body. Thats how the man nominated to be the country’s next top military officer got his call sign: “Swamp Thing....

President Joe Biden announced he was nominating Brown during a Rose Garden event on Thursday, praising him as an “unflappable and highly effective leader.”

The 4-star general expected to be tapped at a Rose Garden ceremony Thursday has a number of historic firsts under his belt from his time as an Air Force pilot.

WASHINGTON - The Air Force fighter pilot whom President Joe Biden nominated Thursday to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff got his ca