SrA. Jonathan L. Calhoun and A1C Erik F. Munana of the 898th Munitions Maintenance Squadron each have received an Airman’s Medal for voluntarily risking their lives on July 2, 2004, to aid a 3-year-old child and her disabled mother from an apartment complex fire in in an Albuquerque, N.M. The airmen were heading back to work after lunch off base, when they saw the fire. They entered the burning building with a local firefighter. Calhoun found the child, and Munana brought out the mother. They stayed to help rescue other people after the Albuquerque Fire Department released other first responders.
B-21 Raider First Flight Now Postponed to 2023
May 20, 2022
The Air Force says the B-21 Raider won't make its first flight until 2023; about a six-month delay from the last official estimates. No reason was given for the delay. While other programs have recently chalked up schedule slips to supply chain and labor shortages, the Air Force has said…