The Air Force has agreed to pay some $519,000 to the Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School to make repairs to damage it sustained when the pilot of an Air National Guard F-16 mistakenly fired 27 training rounds into the building on Nov. 3, 2004. It was nighttime and there were no casualties. A statement from Rep. James Saxton (R-N.J.) said the school district finally reached an agreement with the Air Force on Oct. 31.
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…