This may be a first. The Air Force has selected two instructor pilots, who happen to be husband and wife, to train as B-2 bomber pilots. Currently, Capt. Rob Makros and Capt. Beth Makros serve as T-38 IPs at Vance AFB, Okla. They will transfer to the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman AFB, Mo., in July. They have not always been this lucky, spending much of their six years in the Air Force apart.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III chaired a China military briefing Oct. 27, part of a bi-weekly series of briefings with senior military commanders about China’s growing threat in the wake of an orbital hypersonics weapon test that elicited public worries from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “What we…