In recognition of her volunteer efforts to help refurbish a long-neglected British cemetery in Habbaniyah, Iraq, USAF Capt. Jutta Cortes has been asked to march with British veterans of the Royal Air Force Habbaniyah Association Nov. 12 at The Cenotaph war memorial in London. Cortes, now deputy director of security forces for 20th Air Force at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo, served in Iraq as a military training advisor at Habbaniyah, a former RAF base.
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…