Airmen deployed to the 732nd Regional Support Unit at Camp Habbaniyah, Iraq, have volunteered some 200 hours of their time—so far—to recover a cemetery dating to the 1940s when the camp was used by Britain’s Royal Air Force. Air Force journalist SrA. Josh Moshier reports that some 300 British and Commonwealth military members and civilians are buried at the cemetery. The RAF Habbaniyah Association recently honored one of the early volunteers, Capt. Jutta Cortes, by asking her to march in a military parade in London.
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…