The local community honored fallen airman SSgt. Daniel Fannin with a bronze plaque at AWACS Park, just outside the gate of Tinker AFB, Okla., earlier this month. “Everyone reassures me that Daniel won’t be forgotten, but nonetheless, it has been my biggest fear that he might be,” his wife Sonya Fannin said at the April 4 dedication ceremony, according to an Air Force release. Fannin and three other airmen were killed in an MC-12 Liberty crash near Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, on April 27, 2013. He had already completed three tours deployed from Tinker as an AWACS and MC-12 system operator. “Memorializing Danny here in this public park, a place in which our civilian friends and family can visit and heal on their own time is truly special,” added his wife. The community of Del City, Okla., honored Fannin with the inscription “service before self” on the tail of an E-3 Sentry replica in the park as well.
The White House announced its United States Space Priorities Framework in a document released concurrently with Vice President Kamala Harris' first National Space Council meeting. Listed among five U.S. priorities is to “defend its national security interests from the growing scope and scale of space and counterspace threats.”