Air Mobility Command has reacted to the uproar created when the parents of a slain soldier said the airlines placed his casket on a cart with luggage by soliciting non-airline air transport services to transport “up to four caskets and four escorts per day from Dover AFB, Del., to various locations.” The Pentagon denied the mishandling claim, reportedly saying the Army had provided an escort for the casket and it was not moved with luggage. AMC expects to begin using a new carrier on Jan. 1.
Special-ops aviators, a physicist from the intelligence community, and an enlisted Marine with decades of deployments: U.S. Space Command’s military and civilian leaders who spoke May 7 were as likely to come from strictly space backgrounds as not. These are some of the day’s insights from inside the command, which…