Air Force Reserve Command deactivated its 92nd Aerial Port Squadron in Forty Fort, Pa., last weekend. The Citizens Voice reports that the unit had served there for 51 years before falling prey to BRAC 2005 and the Air Force’s overall personnel drawdown. Some of the unit’s 130 airmen retired along with the 92nd APS.
The U.S. supports “a stronger and more capable” European defense, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said during an Oct. 22 press conference in Brussels—but that defense should not duplicate the functions and capabilities of the NATO alliance.