Two parachute teams from USAF’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape program finished No. 1 and No. 4 in the annual international Leapfest 2007 held recently in Rhode Island. It is the first time an Air Force team has won top honors in the 25-year history of Leapfest, reports SSgt. Connie Bias. The No. 1 team is from the 66th Training Squadron at NAS Pensacola, Fla., and the No. 4 is from the 22nd TS at Fairchild AFB, Wash. Both squadrons are part of the 336th Training Group at Fairchild.
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…