A Robins Air Force Base employee is suing the Air Force, alleging he was discriminated against after his supervisors found out he was gay, according to court records.
Elaine Mayfield lost her husband, Marcus Mayfield, a United States Air Force veteran, to suicide one year ago. Elaine is now trying to adjust to life without him and discover her new normal.
Authorities say the teenage brother of a U.S. Air Force airman who was shot and killed in his home by a Florida sheriff's deputy in May was shot to death this week near Atlanta. The killing of Senior Airman Roger Fortson made global headlines in May. Now, the family is grieving the Tuesday killing of his 16-year-old brother, Andre Fortson, in DeKalb County, near Atlanta's east side.
Roger Fortson, a 23-year-old senior airman, was shot and killed at his apartment by a deputy this month. Lawyers for the family dispute the sheriff's office claim of self-defense.
Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues have joined Roger Fortson's family, friends and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff's deputy.
A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson says the bodycam footage of the Florida sheriff's deputy who killed the Black U.S. Air Force airman and police radio traffic reinforce their assertion that the deputy was directed to the wrong apartment while responding to a domestic disturbance call. In police radio traffic that lawyer Ben Crump played at a news conference Thursday, a dispatcher says all they know about the location of the disturbance is "fourth-party information."
An appeals court has overturned the convictions of a former Georgia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed naked man. Robert "Chip" Olsen responded to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015.
The Air Force says it's disciplining 15 members following it's investigation of Jack Teixeira, an Air National Guardsman accused of classified leaks online.
Air Force Special Operations Command has identified the eight service members lost when their Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan last week. The crew ranged in ages from 24 to 36 years old and came from eight states, including U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jake M. Turnage, 25, of Kennesaw, Georgia.
The state has one of the nation’s largest military populations. And while most families can make ends meet without assistance, a new UGA survey shows about 13% are receiving help with food. Researchers say the next thing they want to look at is how much of an undercount that number could be.
The Department of Defense is phasing out JSTARS, the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System, which means changes in mission are coming and local leaders recognize the Robins Air Force Base workforce must adapt.
Here's what it's like at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where many of the tens of thousands of Afghans evacuated from Kabul over the past few weeks are awaiting travel to the United States.
