Air Force Reserve Command says it has already passed its recruiting goal for 2006, taking in the 8,001 recruit on Aug. 31. Officials credit Reserve airmen for providing the most enlisted recruiting leads to the command’s recruiters, under a program AFRC calls “Get One Now.” There’s still one month to go before the command tallies its final 2006 numbers.
Australia’s military will help the Pentagon pursue so-called “air-breathing” hypersonic weapons and more under the U.S.-run Allied Prototyping Initiative, the U.S. Defense Department said Nov. 30. The Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE) initiative “will be essential to the future of hypersonic research and development, ensuring the U.S. and…