Born and raised in the Miami Valley region, Lt. Col. Vanessa Wilcox has made her home in Bossier City for 13 years while serving as a B-52 Weapon Systems Officer. On April 21, Wilcox became the first ...

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Vanessa Wilcox became commander of the 96th Bomb Squadron, of the 2d Operations Group, during a change-of-command ceremony on April 21, marking her as the first female B-52 ...

Student pilot 1st Lt. Clayton Hultgren of the 11th Bomb Squadron, right, guides a B-52H Stratofortress in for aerial refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker above Arkansas on Jan. 4, 2024. (Stephen Losey ...

Lieutenant Colonel Vanessa Wilcox, the first female commander of the U.S. Air Force B-52H 'Stratofortress' Bombardment Squadron, responded this way on the 19th at Cheongju Air Base to questions from ...

We discussed about the B-2 and the U.S. Air Force’s nuclear bomber fleet with the newly appointed 393rd Bomb Squadron Commander, Lt. Colonel Joseph “Zorro” Manglitz. With experience in the B-2 and ...

MINOT, N.D. (AP) - The military says a planning team is coming to the Minot Air Force Base next month to prepare for a new B-52 bomber squadron. The Air Force has said it plans to add the second ...

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. (KSLA) - As KSLA celebrates Women’s History Month, on March 17, we highlighted a history maker at Barksdale Air Force Base. In April of 2022, Lieutenant Colonel Vanessa ...

A B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron taxis the runway in at RAF Fairford, England prior to taking off for Exercise APEX JET Nov. 25, 2024. During Exercise APEX JET, ...

The B-52, sporting the orange throwback paint scheme, has been spotted flying over Texas with two loads under the wing hardpoints, one of which clearly looks like an AGM-183 ARRW missile. A U.S. Air ...

Minot Air Force Base is preparing to activate a new B-52 bomber squadron that will send 10 more B-52s to the North Dakota base. The new unit will be the fourth B-52 squadron in the Air Force. Minot ...

WASHINGTON - North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base will house a new squadron of B-52 bombers, the state's congressional delegation announced Tuesday. Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan and Rep. Earl ...