Stephen Losey

Stephen Losey is the air warfare reporter for Defense News. He previously covered leadership and personnel issues at Air Force Times, and the Pentagon, special operations and air warfare at Military.com. He has traveled to the Middle East to cover U.S. Air Force operations.


  • Congressman: TSgt Chapman deserves the Medal of Honor
    Congressman: TSgt Chapman deserves the Medal of Honor

    An Air Force combat controller who was killed during a fierce firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2002 deserves the nation’s highest honor for battlefield bravery, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-California, said in a letter Monday.

  • One-star general retaliated against LTC sex assault victim, IG finds
    One-star general retaliated against LTC sex assault victim, IG finds

    After reporting her sexual assault, a now-retired lieutenant colonel with the West Virginia Army National Guard was retaliated against by a brigadier general, the Defense Department’s inspector general said in a new report.

  • He saved 80 lives: Why not the Medal of Honor?
    He saved 80 lives: Why not the Medal of Honor?

    The Air Force is the only service that does not have a Medal of Honor in the Global War on Terror, and with another airman’s heroic action in battle resulting in an Air Force Cross, experts are again asking: What does an airman have to do?

  • Airmen wait and worry over VSP mix-up
    Airmen wait and worry over VSP mix-up

    As the Air Force’s medical benefit mix-up continued into at least its fourth week, frustration built among affected s…

  • Congressman: TSgt Chapman deserves the Medal of Honor
    Congressman: TSgt Chapman deserves the Medal of Honor

    An Air Force combat controller who was killed during a fierce firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2002 deserves the nation’s highest honor for battlefield bravery, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-California, said in a letter Monday.

  • One-star general retaliated against LTC sex assault victim, IG finds
    One-star general retaliated against LTC sex assault victim, IG finds

    After reporting her sexual assault, a now-retired lieutenant colonel with the West Virginia Army National Guard was retaliated against by a brigadier general, the Defense Department’s inspector general said in a new report.

  • He saved 80 lives: Why not the Medal of Honor?
    He saved 80 lives: Why not the Medal of Honor?

    The Air Force is the only service that does not have a Medal of Honor in the Global War on Terror, and with another airman’s heroic action in battle resulting in an Air Force Cross, experts are again asking: What does an airman have to do?

  • Airmen wait and worry over VSP mix-up
    Airmen wait and worry over VSP mix-up

    As the Air Force’s medical benefit mix-up continued into at least its fourth week, frustration built among affected s…

  • Congressman: TSgt Chapman deserves the Medal of Honor
    Congressman: TSgt Chapman deserves the Medal of Honor

    An Air Force combat controller who was killed during a fierce firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2002 deserves the nation’s highest honor for battlefield bravery, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-California, said in a letter Monday.

  • One-star general retaliated against LTC sex assault victim, IG finds
    One-star general retaliated against LTC sex assault victim, IG finds

    After reporting her sexual assault, a now-retired lieutenant colonel with the West Virginia Army National Guard was retaliated against by a brigadier general, the Defense Department’s inspector general said in a new report.

  • He saved 80 lives: Why not the Medal of Honor?
    He saved 80 lives: Why not the Medal of Honor?

    The Air Force is the only service that does not have a Medal of Honor in the Global War on Terror, and with another airman’s heroic action in battle resulting in an Air Force Cross, experts are again asking: What does an airman have to do?

  • Airmen wait and worry over VSP mix-up
    Airmen wait and worry over VSP mix-up

    As the Air Force’s medical benefit mix-up continued into at least its fourth week, frustration built among affected s…