Maj. Gen. Michael Worden, commander of the Air Warfare Center at Nellis AFB, Nev., told the North Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce that Nellis is under attack from surrounding development, reports KREN. The same is true for Air Force bases in Colorado, according to Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), who put a provision in the 2008 defense policy bill to get DOD to address the issue.
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…