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Rare Source of Support for Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

“After a careful examination, there is no scientific evidence to support the claim that unit cohesion will be negatively affected if homosexuals serve openly.” (The Efficacy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" by OM...

"Together We Served" website helps Military people find friends.

I just found a great website were current and ex-military people get together with old friends and make new friends. All branches of the services are there. It's a well run site and I hope run into a couple of old...

Civilian Workers Strike Continues at Vance AFB

Rick Boardman can say all he wants to a reporter for the Enid (Okla.) News & Eagle — as he does in this video — in an attempt to justify the decision to strike that garnered support of 94 percent of the union members for whom he serves as president.  What he...

Thunderbirds Roar Over U.S. Capitol

ANDREWS AFB, MARYLAND - The world renown U.S. Air Force Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, roared into the skies over Maryland and Washington, D.C. today in preparation for Armed Forces Day.  They are...

Attorney General rules against change in Shue's death certificate

BOERNE, TEXAS      After a week long trial, one year ago Judge William Palmer ruled that Air Force Colonel Philip Shue’s death on April 16, 2003, was a homicide. Shortly thereafter the...

Air Force to Retire Nearly 250 Fighter Aircraft

Following the May 7 roll-out of the fiscal year 2010 budget proposal for the Department of Defense, Air Force officials announced in a news release today plans to retire legacy fighters to fund a smaller and more...

CBS 48 Hour Mystery to Feature “The Curious Case of Col. Shue”

BOERNE, TEXAS  On Saturday, April 18, 2009, 10:00 pm EST, CBS will broadcast a 48 Hours Mystery detailing the case of Colonel Philip Michael Shue of Boerne, Texas who was killed in a car crash almost exactly six years ago.Col. Philip Shue died of massive head injuries in...

Obama Causes Writer to Worry About Israel

In an American Thinker opinion piece today, Cliff Thier expresses grave concern about the future of Israel and worries that President Barack Obama will use U.S. Air Force assets to prevent Israeli forces from...

Will Obama Remove Weapons, Countermeasures from Air Force One?

In a Washington Times editorial published yesterday, I learned the anti-gun Obama Administration was "quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun...

Leaders meet for high-level "Warfighter Talks"

"WASHINGTON - Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, along with 35 other general officers from both services, met Feb. 10 in the Pentagon for...

Obama Stalls: Pentagon to Study Gay Ban

Retired Brigadier General for the U.S. Marine Corps, General Hugh Aitken, has questioned the Obama administration plan to form a commission to study "don't ask, don't tell", the common term used for the policy...

Pakistan president warns India against misadventure

Condemning state-sponsored terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, Pakistan said Tuesday that the country's armed forces were ready to foil any attempt of misadventure.In a meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, President Asif Ali Zardari termed the latest...

First Antarctic Night Vision Flight

Upside down from the rest of the world, separated by ice, wind and ocean, the frozen continent's is cut off from the world around it, leaving its human occupants separated from their home countries for long...

B.C. Sikh first member of Canadian Air Force to wear turban

Opinion Barry Artiste Certainly this Canadian Fighter Pilot put his gunsights where his mouth is. If Canadian youth want to do something with their life, instead of directing their energy on negativity, dedicate...

I’m No Stranger to Men Like John McCain

I had the privilege 20 years ago of working for Brig. Gen. Ralph T. Browning, a man who spent nearly seven years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.  Through working for him, I feel like I know something...

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