Several news outlets are reporting that the Air Force is investigating the death of SSgt. Rom Walters with Air Force Reserve Command’s 944th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB, Ariz. The 40-year-old Reservist died May 27, a day after taking an incentive flight aboard an F-16. According to The (Key West, Fla.) Citizen, the F-16 pilot made an emergency landing Friday afternoon at a Key West airfield, from which Walters was taken to a nearby medical center and then to a hospital in Miami, where he died Saturday night. Elements of the 944th have been in Key West on a training mission.
Today, the Air Force Association’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies will host a Nuclear Deterrence Forum featuring Brad Roberts, director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Event video will tentatively be posted to the think tank’s website and YouTube page afterward.