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Robins Air Force Base front gate sign in Houston County, Georgia. EDWARD ASPERA 78th Air Base Wing Public Affair

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Robins Air Force Base staffer sues, says bosses discriminated after learning he was gay

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.

September 06, 2024
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  • Alba Rosa
Elaine Mayfield. Kerri Phox/The Atlanta Voice

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  • Health

Surviving suicide loss: Black veteran’s wife shares journey of adjustment and healing

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.

September 06, 2024
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By:
  • Lentheus Chaney and
  • The Atlanta Voice
Chantemekki Fortson the mother of slain airman Roger Fortson, right, along with family watch Fortson's casket as they leave for a cemetery during his funeral at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, on May 17, 2024, in Stonecrest, Ga.

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Teen brother of Air Force airman who was killed by Florida deputy is shot to death near Atlanta

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.

August 01, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Chantemekki Fortson, mother of Roger Fortson, a U.S. Air Force senior airman, holds a photo of her son.

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Family of Black U.S. airman seeks answers after fatal shooting by Florida deputy

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.

May 17, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin,
  • Emma Bowman,
  • and 1 more
A mourner stands at the casket of slain airman Roger Fortson during his funeral at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Friday, May 17, 2024, near Atlanta.

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Hundreds pack funeral for Roger Fortson, the Black airman killed in his home by a Florida deputy

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.

May 17, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Chantemekki Fortson, the mother of slain airman Roger Fortson, speaks during a news conference describing details of the airman's death, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Stonecrest, Ga.

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Lawyer for family of slain US Air Force airman says video and calls show deputy went to wrong home

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."

May 16, 2024
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  • Associated Press
In this June 6, 2016 file photo, former DeKalb Police Officer Robert Olsen stands during his arraignment in Decatur, Ga.

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Appeals court overturns convictions of former Georgia officer who fatally shot naked man

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.

March 14, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Undated photo posted by Jack Teixeira's mother on Veterans Day Nov. 11, 2021 on her Facebook page.

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  • National Security

The Air National Guard disciplines 15 members in wake of Discord intel leak

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.

December 11, 2023
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  • Tom Bowman
 In this photo provided by Japan Coast Guard, debris believed to be from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft is seen off the coast of Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. A crew member who was recovered from the ocean after a U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying six people crashed Wednesday off southern Japan has been pronounced dead, coast guard officials said.

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Air Force identifies the eight US crew lost in Osprey crash in Japan

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.

December 05, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Members of the Japanese Coast Guard carry debris believed to be from the crashed U.S. military Osprey aircraft at a port in Yakushima, southern Japan, on Monday.

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Divers find wreckage and remains from Osprey aircraft that crashed off Japan

The CV-22 Osprey carrying eight American personnel crashed last Wednesday off Yakushima island during a training mission.

December 04, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A military servicemember holds a cellphone up for a child

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  • Health

UGA study looks at how many military families use food pantries

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. 

November 10, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
A 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron E-11A aircraft outfitted with Battlefield Airborne Communications Node sits on a runway in Afghanistan in 2019.

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After JSTARS, what will sustain Robins Air Force Base in the future?

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.

September 12, 2022
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  • Liz Fabian
GPB News NPR

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Watchdog warned months before U.S. pullout Afghanistan's air force would collapse

American authorities had been alerted that Afghanistan's air force did not have the capabilities to survive after a U.S. withdrawal.

January 18, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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Air Force discharges 27 for refusing to get COVID vaccine

The Pentagon earlier this year required the vaccine for all members of the military, including active duty, National Guard and the Reserves.

December 14, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Afghan evacuees wait for the next flight to the U.S. in a fenced-in enclosure in a hangar at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. More than 25,000 Afghans have traveled through Ramstein to get to the United States.

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The U.S. Air Base At The Heart Of America's Biggest Airlift

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.

September 02, 2021
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  • Rob Schmitz
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