The Air Force Reserve Command C-130 unit based at Youngstown ARS, Ohio, got the OK to install infrared lights on two runways at the Youngstown-Warren Airport, which will enable the airmen of the 910th Airlift Wing to train using night vision goggles—a much-needed experience for operations in Southwest Asia. Wing officials told The Vindicator newspaper that no other AFRC unit has this training capability. So far, the new training tool has brought in units—Air National Guard and AFRC—from elsewhere in Ohio and New York and Pennsylvania.
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…