USAF F-16s provided CAS for coalition troops under fire near Al Qaim, Iraq, on Thursday. The F-16s responded to a call, striking enemy forces with two GBU-12s.
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…