The Defense Department has certified the 53rd of 55 weapons of mass destruction civil support teams—the 22nd WMD-CMT of the Puerto Rico National Guard. • Air Combat Command has presented the Gen. Carl A. Spaatz Award to Civil Air Patrol Cadet Col. Daniel Lamb; the Hampton Roads Composite Squadron cadet achieved the leadership award in less than four years, when it normally takes five years. • The Air Force has selected 29 officers to enter the service’s test pilot program at Edwards AFB, Calif., and two more to attend training at the Navy Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Md.
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…