Invest in Promising Programs, Focus on National Strategy ARLINGTON, Va., May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Air Force Association (AFA) today urged Congress to reverse the deep cuts to vital Air Force systems in the 2010 Defense Budget to protect essential USAF capabilities.

An Air Force B-52 bomber crashed off Guam yesterday morning, killing at least three airmen and leading to an intensive ocean search for the remaining three crew members, the military said.

A U.S. Air Force jet with six crew members on board crashed Monday off the island of Guam, an Air Force spokesman said. Crews were searching for survivors, CNN reported. Air Force Capt. Joel Stark, a spokesman for Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, said rescuers with the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S.

WASHINGTON _ In an extraordinary indication of concern about the handling of the nation's nuclear arsenal, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Thursday forced the top civilian and military leaders of the Air Force to resign and appointed a former secretary of defense to devise new ways to better guard nuclear weapons.

More than 18,000 feet above the mountains on Hawaii's biggest island, two B-2 stealth bombers drop six 2,000-pound inert bombs on a training range below. It's a scene being repeated monthly as the Air Force's sleek, boomerang-shaped planes use Hawaii for target practice.