Your Air Force - Military Times Independent News About Your Military | Military Times Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:37:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://one.sightlinemg.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/favicon-mil.png?w=32 Your Air Force - Military Times 32 32 255331715 One-star general — and Enola Gay pilot’s grandson — forced to retire after misconduct claims https://one.sightlinemg.com/militarytimes/news/2018/09/27/global-strike-command-one-star-forced-to-retire-after-air-force-confirms-misconduct-claims/ https://one.sightlinemg.com/militarytimes/news/2018/09/27/global-strike-command-one-star-forced-to-retire-after-air-force-confirms-misconduct-claims/#respond Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:43:13 +0000 https://one.sightlinemg.com/militarytimes/uncategorized/2018/09/27/global-strike-command-one-star-forced-to-retire-after-air-force-confirms-misconduct-claims/ https://one.sightlinemg.com/militarytimes/news/2018/09/27/global-strike-command-one-star-forced-to-retire-after-air-force-confirms-misconduct-claims/feed/ 0 38448 0 Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets IV, deputy commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, will be forced to retire after an investigation substantiated several accusations of misconduct during his previous command.

Tibbets will also not receive his promotion to major general, the Air Force said in a release Thursday evening.

The Air Force said an inspector general investigation substantiated allegations that Tibbets had made inappropriate comments about women on two occasions, failed to properly report suicide attempts through his chain of command on four occasions, violated policy on use of a government vehicle, and failed to report the value of autographed photographs given to him by celebrities.

The allegations stemmed from his command of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, which he led from June 2015 to July 2017.

The release said complaints were raised about Tibbets in May 2017. After the investigation was completed, now-retired Gen. Robin Rand, former head of Global Strike Command, issued Tibbets a letter of admonishment and his promotion was withheld.

Tibbets will enter terminal leave Oct. 19, and his retirement as a brigadier general will take effect Dec. 1.

Tibbets, a 1989 Air Force Academy graduate, is the grandson of Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets Jr., who piloted the Enola Gay when it dropped a uranium bomb over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

]]> It’s the Raider: Air Force unveils name of new B-21 bomber https://one.sightlinemg.com/militarytimes/news/2016/09/19/it-s-the-raider-air-force-unveils-name-of-new-b-21-bomber/ https://one.sightlinemg.com/militarytimes/news/2016/09/19/it-s-the-raider-air-force-unveils-name-of-new-b-21-bomber/#respond Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:06:05 +0000 https://one.sightlinemg.com/militarytimes/uncategorized/2016/09/19/it-s-the-raider-air-force-unveils-name-of-new-b-21-bomber/ https://one.sightlinemg.com/militarytimes/news/2016/09/19/it-s-the-raider-air-force-unveils-name-of-new-b-21-bomber/feed/ 0 44965 0 The Air Force’s next stealth bomber will be called the Raider.

The aircraft’s name, announced Monday at the Air Force Association’s Air Space Cyber conference in National Harbor, Maryland, hearkens back to one of the service’s most storied moments: the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in World War II, the first raid on the Japanese homeland..

And to underscore the connection, one of the Doolittle Raiders – 101-year-old retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole, who was then-Lt. Col. James Doolittle’s copilot on aircraft 1 during the raid – took the stage to make the announcement, alongside Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James.


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Retired Col. Richard E. Cole, a surviving member of Doolittle’s Raid on Japan, announced the name of the new long range bomber—the “B-21 Raider”, as Air Force Sec. Deborah Lee James, right and Technical Sgt. Derek White, center, who came up with the Raider name along with Lt. Col Jamie Hernandez (not pictured), look on.
Photo Credit: Alan Lessig/Staff

“I am very humbled to be here representing Gen. Doolittle and the Raiders at the naming of the B-21 Raider, and wish they were here,” Cole said. “We are deeply honored.”

In her introduction, James called Cole “a cut above” and “one of the greatest men of the Greatest Generation.”

“He signed up for a one-way trip to Tokyo back in April of 1942 with Jimmy Doolittle,” James said. “Our Greatest Generation, the generation of World War II, secured our freedom for all of us, and we’ve been able to live our lives as a result.”

The Air Force earlier this year held a contest to have airmen submit suggestions to name the B-21. James saluted Lt. Col. Jaime Hernandez, commander of the 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, and Technical Sgt. Derek White, an emergency management craftsman at the 175th Civil Engineering Squadron with the Maryland Air National Guard, for submitting the winning name.

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