Civil engineering airmen of the Kansas Air National Guard’s 184th Air Refueling Wing constructed 2,009 feet of fencing in Arizona along the border with Mexico during their two-week deployment to assist the Border Patrol. The Kansas City Star reports that the feat exceeded the work of seven previous National Guard civil engineering units.
A record investment in research and development by the Department of the Air Force will help the United States win the long-term technology race with China, even while shrinking the fleet size before a possible mid-decade Taiwan contingency, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said May 17. “With the Air Force,…