A five-man TV crew from the CBS news magazine “60 Minutes” has been to Balad AB, Iraq, to interview and film Air Force medical personnel, who are engaged in getting casualties from the battlefield to Balad’s theater hospital and on to Germany for more extended care. According to Balad’s Red Tail Flyer, the Air Force Theater Hospital, which sees some of the most seriously injured troops, has hosted numerous national and regional broadcast and print news media. Col. Don Taylor, commander of the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, said that it is “important that we tell the story of the extraordinary work that our people are doing here.”
DARPA Changing Directors Again in Third Recent Shuffle
Jan. 21, 2021
The Biden administration is reportedly tapping Stefanie Tompkins to run the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, spurring the third leadership change at the secretive Pentagon organization since January 2020. Defense One first reported Tompkins’s “pre-decisional” appointment to the post on Jan. 19. The White House did not respond to a…