Thomas Novelly

The Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps have all paused Osprey operations following another parts failure, this time with the Air Force's version of the aircraft during a training mission in New Mexico last month.

Federal investigators arrested a 39-year-old man this week after accusing him of flying a drone and taking pictures of Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, an arrest that comes amid other high-profile drone swarms at U.S. military bases.

The U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron ‘Thunderbirds’ perform at the California Capital Air Show in Mather, Calif., Sept. 26, 2021. (Staff Sgt. Cory W. Bush/U.S. Air Force photo)

Widespread attention over alleged drone sightings across the country is largely due to misidentification, and the objects in the sky are often not nefarious, according to Pentagon officials and aviation experts, even as U.S. military bases sound alarms about detecting them in their airspace.

The Air Force was unable to reach many of those goals in the 2023 and 2024 school years for the Air Force Academy and Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or ROTC, according to data provided by the service.

The Washington, D.C., Air National Guard would transfer ownership of its F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter squadron to the Maryland Air National Guard as part of a proposed stopgap government funding bill unveiled in Congress on Tuesday.

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B takes off from the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer in the Pacific Ocean Nov. 22, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joseph Helms)

In a month, the president who created the Space Force will be back in the White House, and one of the service's biggest supporters, Rep. Mike Rogers, will retain his role as chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee.

31 new recruits enlist in the Missouri Air National Guard, during a mass enlistment at the Speed of Sound Airshow, at Rosecrans Air National Guard Base in St. Joseph, Missouri, September 14, 2024. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Patrick Evenson)

The Air Force is expanding its retention and reenlistment bonuses this month to 89 of its toughest and highly skilled career fields, from working dog handlers and bomb technicians to flight attendants and paralegals.