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Air Force Quietly Ends Program Allowing Retired Pilots to Return to Service A patch displaying the Deadly Black Eagle emblem is displayed on a flight suit of a 435th Fighter Training Squadron student pilot Jan. 5, 2016. (Beth Anschutz/U.S. Air Force) 30 Apr 2021 The U.S. Air Force has pulled the plug on a program that allowed retired pilots to come back to service. The service quietly canceled its Voluntary Retired Return to Active Duty Program, or VRRAD, program back in December, spokeswoman Ann Stefanek confirmed to Military.com. The service began the program in 2017 in an effort to fill fl...

Florida National Guard education benefits hang in balance of budget talks Image via AP. The budget talks come after Florida National Guardsmen operated at a historic tempo in 2020. The education benefits promised to Florida National guardsmen will hang in the balance this week as the House and Senate resume state budget negotiations on Monday. More than 1,800 Florida Guardsmen utilized tuition assistance in 2020 under the Educational Dollars for Duty Program (EDD). The program covers tuition expenses for qualified soldiers and airmen pursuing a post-secondary education. However, the flagshi...

Tunnel to Towers, a foundation set up for first responders after 9/11, will pay off the mortgages for Laura Schwartzenberger and Daniel Alfin, the FBI special agents who died in Tuesday’s shooting.