The 436th Civil Engineer Squadron environmental restoration staff at Dover AFB, Del., has won the 2006 Air Force General Thomas D. White Environmental Restoration Award, which honors the installation with the best restoration program. The Dover staff managed to provide a remedy-in-place six years ahead of the base goal to remediate 59 locations where contaminants historically had leaked into the environment.
The Air Force rolled out new interim height standards for Career Enlisted Aviators aimed at improving aircrew diversity and “safely meeting accession demands,” as the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center works to update a 1967 anthropometric study used to establish USAF flight requirements for more than half a century.…