| 100% | UFO | 3 | Familiar initialism coined by a U.S. Air Force captain |
| 43% | UFOS | 4 | Subjects of a U.S. Air Force cover-up? |
| 41% | MORGANFREEMAN | 13 | "The Bucket List" actor who is a U.S. Air Force veteran (2 wds.) |
| 41% | SUNNYANDERSON | 13 | "Cooking for Real" host who is a U.S. Air Force veteran (2 wds.) |
| 36% | DEB | 3 | Haaland who facilitated the first apology by a U.S. President for forced assimilation of Indigenous children at government boarding schools (October, 2024) |
| 34% | NORAD | 5 | Org. always headed by a U.S. general or admiral |
| 34% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird on a U.S. coin |
| 34% | GOD | 3 | Word on a U.S. coin |
| 34% | UNUM | 4 | Word on a U.S. coin |
| 34% | FDR | 3 | Prez on a U.S. coin |
| 33% | COE | 3 | ___ campgrounds (recreation areas overseen by a U.S. Army civil-works program) |
| 33% | GODWE | 5 | "In ___ trust" (phrase on a U.S. coin) |
| 32% | DOOLIE | 6 | Term for a freshman at the U.S. Air Force Academy |
| 31% | NODICE | 6 | Expression coined by a crapshooter |
| 31% | SAYONARA | 8 | 1957 film starring Marlon Brando as a US Air Force pilot in Japan who falls for a local woman |
| 31% | PENNY | 5 | First U.S. coin to feature a president |
| 30% | TENDOLLARS | 10 | Value of a U.S. coronet head coin, minted from 1838 to 1907 |
| 30% | COLORADOSPRINGS | 15 | Home of the U.S. Air Force Academy |
| 30% | DRAG | 4 | Term in physics for the retarding force exerted by air or fluid surrounding a moving object |
| 30% | PHOENIXAZ | 9 | Largest U.S. state capital by population, on a postmark |
| 29% | CZAR | 4 | Powerful agency boss appointed by a US president |
| 29% | ONE | 3 | Air Force ___ (US president's jet) |
| 29% | ONE | 3 | Air Force ___ (US president's plane) |
| 29% | PENNY | 5 | First U.S. coin to feature a real person’s image |
| 29% | GPS | 3 | Network operated by the U.S. Space Force |
| 29% | ERIE | 4 | Name shared by a US city, canal, and lake |
| 29% | INSERT | 6 | Word by a coin slot |
| 29% | OHIOAN | 6 | U. S. Grant, by birth |
| 29% | EAGLE | 5 | Bird on a US coin |
| 28% | DONHO | 5 | Air Force pilot who became a pop star |