Tag Archives: Air Force

“Boogaloo” Airman Convicted On Child Porn Charges

Military.com reports: An airman stationed with an intelligence unit in Alaska who was investigated by federal officials in 2022 was found to be involved with online extremist groups. The investigation ultimately led to his arrest on child pornography charges, according to federal documents made public this week. Jason Gray, then a staff sergeant with the Air Force’s 381st Intelligence Squadron …

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DOJ: Air Force Staffer Posted Secrets On Foreign Site

The Associated Press reports: A civilian U.S. Air Force employee has been charged in federal court in Nebraska with transmitting classified information about Russia’s war with Ukraine on a foreign online dating platform, the Justice Department said Monday. David Franklin Slater, 63, who authorities say retired as an Army lieutenant colonel and was assigned to the U.S. Strategic Command at …

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Airman Gets 16 Years For Leaking Pentagon Secrets

ABC News reports: Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira agreed Monday that he caused one of the most extraordinary leaks of national defense secrets in years and agreed to accept a prison sentence of 16 years — what could be the longest sentence in an unlawful retention case. According to the signed plea agreement filed with the court, Teixeira, 22, …

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US Airman Dies After Self-Immolation Outside Israeli Embassy In DC: “I Will Not Be Complicit In Genocide”

The Insider reports: An active duty US Airman on Sunday died after he lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, in an act of protest against the war in Gaza. Aaron Bushnell said in a live-streamed video on Twitch that his decision was to “protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people,” according to …

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Air Force Disciplines 15 In Classified Docs Leak Scandal

The Washington Post reports: The Air Force disciplined 15 members of the Air National Guard after an internal investigation found that a “lack of supervision” and a “culture of complacency” helped enable a 21-year-old airman to share hundreds of classified documents online in the sprawling leak of U.S. military secrets that rocked the national security establishment this spring. In a …

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Pentagon: Possible Breach Of FBI Communications

Forbes reports: The Pentagon is investigating what it has called a “critical compromise” of communications across 17 Air Force facilities by one of its engineers, according to a search warrant obtained by Forbes. The document also details evidence of a possible breach of FBI communications by the same employee, who worked at the Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee. The …

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Federal Grand Jury Indicts Guardsman Pentagon Leaker

The New York Times reports: A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who posted dozens of secret intelligence reports and other sensitive documents on a gaming server, on six counts of retaining and transmitting classified national defense information. The filing of criminal charges against Mr. Teixeira, 21, comes two months after F.B.I. agents arrested him …

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Pentagon Cancels Drag Show At Nevada Air Force Base

NBC News reports: Pentagon leaders have stepped in to stop a drag show scheduled for Thursday at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, according to two defense officials and a U.S. official. The show, which was in celebration of Pride Month, was approved by Air Force leaders, but Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of …

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Air Force Suspends Leaker’s Two Commanding Officers

The Stars & Stripes reports: The Air Force has suspended two commanding officers linked with Jack Teixeira, a member of the same military unit who is accused of posting a trove of classified government documents online. The commander of the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron and a detachment commander — who oversees administrative support — were suspended “pending further investigation into …

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Air Force General: We’re Not Ruling Out Anything

Reuters reports: The U.S. Air Force general overseeing North American airspace said on Sunday after a series of shoot-downs of unidentified objects that he would not rule out aliens or any other explanation yet, deferring to U.S. intelligence experts. Asked whether he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for three airborne objects shot down by U.S. warplanes in as many …

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Chinese Fighter Jet Menaces US Air Force Aircraft

From the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Public Affairs office: On Dec. 21 (China Standard Time), a People’s Liberation Army – Navy J-11 fighter pilot performed an unsafe maneuver during an intercept of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft, which was lawfully conducting routine operations over the South China Sea in international airspace. The PLAN pilot flew an unsafe maneuver by flying …

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Air Force Issues Plan To Help Mitigate Climate Change

Via press release from the US Air Force: The Department of the Air Force released its Climate Action Plan Oct. 4, which defines how it will preserve operational capability, increase resiliency, and do its part to help mitigate future climate impacts through specific and measurable objectives and key results. It lays out its enterprise-wide approach to ensuring policies, technology innovation, …

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First Baby Formula Shipment Arrives From Overseas

CNBC reports: A military cargo plane carrying the first shipment of infant formula from Europe to address a critical shortage in the United States landed in Indianapolis on Sunday. A Feb. 17 recall by top baby formula maker Abbott Laboratories and the closing of its manufacturing plant in Sturgis, Michigan have created one of the biggest infant formula shortages in …

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Air Force May Block Anti-Vax Cadets From Graduating

The Associated Press reports: Four cadets at the Air Force Academy may not graduate or be commissioned as military officers this month because they have refused the COVID-19 vaccine, and they may be required to pay back thousands of dollars in tuition costs, according to Air Force officials. It’s the only military academy, so far, where cadets may face such …

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Air Force Must Pay $230M In 2017 Texas Mass Shooting

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims’ families of a 2017 Texas church massacre for failing to flag a conviction that might have kept the gunman from legally buying the weapon used in the shooting, a federal judge ruled in San Antonio on Monday. More than two …

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Air Force Denies Requests For Religious Vax Exemptions

The Hill reports: The Air Force has denied 2,130 requests for religious accommodations to the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and has not approved any, the service announced today. Air Force and Space Force commands received more than 10,000 requests from airmen and guardians across the active-duty, National Guard and Reserve hoping to avoid the coronavirus shot. More than 8,630 individuals …

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Air Force Begins Discharging COVID Vaccine Refusers

The Associated Press reports: The Air Force has discharged 27 people for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, making them what officials believe are the first service members to be removed for disobeying the mandate to get the shots. The Air Force gave its forces until Nov. 2 to get the vaccine, and thousands have either refused or sought an …

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Air Force Held Liable For 2017 Texas Mass Shooting

The Wall Street Journal reports: A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Air Force bears most of the responsibility for the 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, because it failed to enter the shooter’s criminal history into a federal background check database used for gun purchases. The decision Wednesday from U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez of …

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Space Force Colonel Fired Over Diversity Complaints

Military.com reports: A commander of a U.S. Space Force unit tasked with detecting ballistic missile launches has been fired for comments made during a podcast promoting his new book, which claims Marxist ideologies are becoming prevalent in the United States military. Lt Col. Matthew Lohmeier, commander of 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, was relieved from …

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Air Force Releases Full List Of Rejected Space Force Troop Names: Floaty Bois, Jetsons, Stargeants, More

Politico reports: The Space Force caught a lot of flak for naming its members Guardians. But it could’ve been Floaty Bois or Astrogators. Those are two of the 400 suggestions military space personnel submitted as potential nicknames for Space Force members, according to a list released Friday by the Air Force. In December, Vice President Mike Pence announced members of …

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