SrA. Nathan Fried, deployed to Bagram AB, Afghanistan, has trained Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team members to figure out dew point, wind speed, temperature, barometric pressure, cloud cover, and more. The PRT observers e-mail the data to Fried or another staff weather officer at Bagram, providing more accurate forecasts for ground and air assets transiting the region.
The Next-Generation Air Dominance Fighter is Air Combat Command’s top priority, because without it, the Air Force can’t provide the control of the air the whole military depends on to operate, Air Combat Command chief Gen. Mark D. Kelly said. He also named a replacement for the E-3 AWACS, new…