Air Force Magazine Editor in Chief Robert Dudney says, “The Schwalier injustice has been eliminated, but the Khobar Towers case goes on.” (Read the February editorial.) (Also see this collection of articles.)
U.S. Air Force F-35s and F-22s regularly deploy deep into the Pacific region from Alaska, Utah, and Hawaii. In the future, though, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command would like to see the Air Force permanently station fifth-generation aircraft west of the international date line—closer to China.