The US Air Force Academy Association of Graduates have awarded retired Gen. Hansford T. Johnson and retired Gen. Michael E. Ryan with its 2005 Distinguished Graduate award. Johnson commanded Military Airlift Command and was the first USAFA grad to make four-star rank. Ryan was the second academy graduate to become USAF Chief of Staff. The association plans to honor the two men at the Academy’s Founder’s Day celebration on April 7
Special-ops aviators, a physicist from the intelligence community, and an enlisted Marine with decades of deployments: U.S. Space Command’s military and civilian leaders who spoke May 7 were as likely to come from strictly space backgrounds as not. These are some of the day’s insights from inside the command, which…