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Air Force suspends rappelling events for special ops training unit after fatal fall

By Austin Campbell

Posted Yesterday

Air Force special ops trainees are graduating months faster in revised pipeline

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Oct 22, 2026

Rappel demonstrations are risky, but common among elite units

Posted on Oct 20, 2026

Airman who died in football game rappelling incident identified

By Patty Nieberg, Austin Campbell, Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Oct 19, 2026

Airman dies in rappelling demonstration at Navy football game

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Oct 18, 2026

Florida Air Force bases evacuate personnel, aircraft ahead of Hurricane Isaias

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Oct 8, 2026

After two F-16 crashes, Air Force revamps how crews inspect a ‘blind spot’

Posted on Oct 8, 2026

Air Force pulls bombers from RAF Fairford after security incident

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Oct 4, 2026

Air Force authorizes new berets for explosive ordnance techs

Posted on Oct 3, 2026

Florida deputy acquitted in trial over shooting of Air Force special ops airman

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Oct 2, 2026

Return of the Blackbird? Clues emerge that an SR-71 might fly again

Posted on Oct 1, 2026

Many awards for combat flying, few details in Iran war

Posted on Sep 30, 2026

Airmen criticize Air Force’s use of AI in suicide prevention training as ‘uncomfortable and odd’

By Austin Campbell

Posted on Sep 30, 2026

5 arrested in suspected terror plot at UK base used by US Air Force

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Sep 27, 2026

Four airmen receive the Distinguished Flying Cross for Kabul evacuation actions

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Sep 26, 2026

Thunderbird’s 360-camera captured pilot’s safe ejection during crash

Posted on Sep 24, 2026