Air Force
AF General on trial this week
Air Force Major General Phillip Stewart has been accused of a variety of sexual crimes, and is due to be court-martialed for them. Court-martial proceedings for an Air Force two-star general charged with sexual assault are being held this week in Texas, marking only the second time in history that a general officer in the […]
Valor Friday
We talked about Philip Conran briefly several years back. At the time, I wrote a piece on him for Valor Friday, but it appears that it was never shared with the blog. Here it is, five years later. A congressman from California, Rep. Salud Carbajal (D), has introduced legislation authorizing the president to upgrade Air […]
Valor Friday
For a time during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many awards for combat valor were being awarded in secret. At one point it was nearly 20% of the service crosses and Silver Stars. This is done to protect the recipient and their family, most often while they’re deployed (or subject to likely subsequent and […]
Thursday updates- Fortson, Biden, Lee, and 6/6
You should recall Roger Fortson, the young airman killed by a deputy sheriff in Florida after answering his door with a gun in his hand. For a good start – the deputy has been fired. Deputy Eddie Duran, an Army veteran who had been with the department since 2019, was fired from the Okaloosa County […]
F-35 crash in NM
A brand-new F-35B crashed on takeoff from Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque on Wednesday. A pilot from the Defense Contract Management Agency was at the F-35B’s controls at the time of the incident. The plane had refueled at Kirtland Air Force Base, just adjacent to the airport, before the crash. The pilot ejected from […]
Air Force promotions influenced by completion of DEI related training
James O’Keefe, of O’Keefe Media Group, released another undercover video. In this video, a man working for the Air Force discloses what DEI people are actually doing in the military. The man, Jake Reyna, has a low opinion of “old white men” mainly due to their conservative leanings. He admitted that the completion or none-completion […]
Valor Friday
We discussed yesterday the recent passing of Brigadier General Clarence “Bud” Anderson. He was the last American triple ace still living. He shot down 16 German Luftwaffe planes in the skies over Europe between 8 March and 5 December 1944. He earned five Distinguished Flying Crosses for his successes. Read them here. Post-war, Anderson remained […]
Beards for Airmen and Guardians
The Navy did a study to investigate the effects that facial hair has on gas mask use. The Navy hasn’t released the study’s details yet. An amendment has been added to the annual defense authorization bill that would call for a pilot program for some Air Force and Space Force personnel to grow beards. The […]
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