Air Force cadet candidate Ava Moore, 18, was honored with full military honors after being killed in a jet ski accident involving illegal immigrants in Texas.

The Air Force and Space Force announced they had hit their recruiting targets shortly after the Navy and the Army had reached their benchmarks for bringing in new sailors and soldiers.

The service rallied in 2024, signing up more than 27,000 airmen. That success prompted the Air Force Recruiting Service to initially hope for 20% growth in 2025, to bring in 32,500 new airmen.

The Air Force used only a 1.5-mile run as its annual test through the 1980s, according to a RAND study of Air Force fitness requirements published in 2021.

Air Force airmen and Space Force guardians stand in formation at an activation ceremony at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., on June 18, 2025. (U.S. Space Force ) ...

Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force David A. Flosi speaks to students of the Chief Master Sergeant Leadership Course at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, April 29, 2025.

The Air Force has often pointed to the arrival of the F-35 as reducing the need for the A-10 fleet. But the new budget also cuts the number of those jets which carry fewer weapons than the A-10 ...

A “playful” online petition urging the Air Force to name Chief Master Sgt. Jeremiah Grisham as its next top enlisted leader was intended as a tribute to the airman, not a critique of the ...

A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II assigned to the F-35A Lightning II Demo Team performs at the Great Tennessee Air Show in Smyrna, Tennessee, on June 7. (Staff Sgt. Zachary Rufus/U.S. Air Force ...

With 12,000 trained fighter pilots, Luke Air Force Base, then Luke Field, served as the largest fighter pilot training base during World War II, according to the U.S. Air Force website. The base ...

What Happens Next It remains to be seen whether the U.S. Air Force will forward-deploy some of its KC-46A aircraft to bases in the western Pacific to enhance overall operational flexibility.