Air Force Marathon officials at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, report a record turnout for the 13th running of the annual event, which hosted nearly 10,000 runners—a 35 percent bump up from last year. The winner of the men’s full marathon was Dave Johnston from Xenia, Ohio; the winner of the women’s full marathon was 2nd Lt. (we believe) Kate Papenberg, assigned to RAF Lakenheath; and the winner of the full marathon, wheeled division, was Michael Postell from Snellville, Ga. Other winners, including those for the half marathon and shorter runs are listed in this news release.
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…