The Air National Guard’s 186th Air Refueling Wing at Key Field, Miss., will get a new 10,000-square-foot medical training center, funded under the just completed 2006 supplemental for the war on terrorism and hurricane recovery, the Meridian Star reports. The new facility will replace the one damaged during Hurricane Katrina last year.
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…