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Air Force aircrew members no longer need a medical waiver to fly and perform other assigned flight duties, the Air Force said Monday. In a statement, the military branch said certain fully ...
The 908th Operations Support Squadron’s Aircrew Flight Equipment Officer, 1st Lt. Troy Smith was named the Air Force Reserve ...
A U.S. Air Force 1st Airlift Squadron C-40B and a Canadian Air Force C-17 Globemaster III sit at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, as the C-40B awaits refueling in February 2017. Prestwick was the last ...
Air Force Special Operations Command may shift the number of its CV-22 Osprey pilots and aircrew as it reevaluates how the controversial tilt-rotor aircraft is used -- and as officials probe the ...
Staff Sgt. Ross Dugger, a 354th Operations Support Squadron aircrew flight equipment craftsman, zips up the new arctic survival seat kit for the F-35A Lighting II on Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska ...
The policy didn’t force pregnant women to work as aircrew, the service said in 2019. Meanwhile, the authorized flying window following the first trimester has been extended under the new policy.
SOFIS-TRG LLC, Alexandria, Virginia, was awarded a $83,058,286 firm-fixed-price, single-award contract for MQ-9 Aircrew Training Support. This contract provides for all personnel, equipment, tools, ...
Six airmen took an Air Force HC-130J Combat King II on an exercise over Georgia on September 6, 2019. All the airmen were women, and they were the first all-women aircrew to fly the Combat King II.
The U.S. Air Force is close to selecting a new helmet for its fixed-wing aircrew, based on studies that have identified problems with injuries and the integration of new technology on the current ...
Raytheon Corp., Marlborough, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $191,011,135 modification (P00084) to previously awarded contract FA8705-14-C-0001 for exercising the production option under contract ...
At the end of fiscal year 2016 in September that year, the Air Force was short 1,544 pilots, of whom 1,211 were fighter pilots. The service is also poised to lose 1,600 more fliers over the next ...
The U.S. Air Force said the service was reviewing its travel-spending policies after an aircrew’s March stay at a Trump golf resort in Scotland intensified scrutiny over public funds being spent ...