Inspired by his father, Palyash chose a career as a crew chief in the Air Force. “He would talk about his adventures in the Navy and being a crew chief, and that stuck with me as a teenager ...

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – When a $200 million military aircraft breaks down in remote places like Afghanistan or Colombia, pilots can call on their flying crew chief, who, as most ...

An Air Force flying crew chief assigned to the 40th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron touches the nose of a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft for good luck prior to boarding the aircraft for a mission ...

1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Danny Beckwith, 522nd Special Operations Squadron crew chief, inspects electrical components on the MC-130J Commando II at ...

That moment when an Air Force pilot asks the plane’s crew chief if the jet is good to go, and that young airmen says yes, is the essence of what a fighter wing is all about if you ask Langley… ...

In 2021, LePage was named the Lead Crew Chief. She oversees 10 to 15 airmen at any given time as well as the maintenance of her jet. Loring Air Force Base housed the 69th Bomb Squadron from 1953 ...

His passion for aviation ultimately led him to rejoin the military, this time as an U.S. Air Force crew chief. While stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Trump’s commitment to ...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles ‘CQ’ Brown Jr. was frank in assessing his progress on transforming the service. By David Roza Published Aug 30, 2022 4:41 PM EDT Despite their swaggering ...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, shown here delivering his keynote speech to the Air and Space Forces Association's AFA Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colo., March 7, ...

A ‘quiet giant’ Brown took command as the Air Force’s 22nd chief of staff on Aug. 6. The ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, took place in front of a P-51 Mustang — a symbolic link ...