Airmen from the 23rd and 347th Operations Support Squadrons at Moody AFB, Ga., led a search and rescue interoperability exercise involving 1,500 participants at Tyndall AFB, Fla., from Nov. 1-4. The exercise included HC-130J Combat King IIs, HH-60G Pave Hawks, C-17s, A-10Cs, and E-8C JSTARS, according to a press release. The training scenario allowed rescue, maintenance, intelligence, and support airmen to practice coordination of effort in a combat rescue situation from a simulated “mobile rescue operations center” of the kind that would support a forward operating base. Specific capabilities tested were “helicopter air refueling, airdrop, infiltration, exfiltration, landing on blacked out runways, and non-traditional surveillance,” according to the release.
The National Garden of American Heroes, a statuary park being planned at President Donald J. Trump’s behest, will tentatively include the likenesses of U.S. aviation and aerospace pioneers including Benjamin O. Davis Jr., James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, and William “Billy” Mitchell—just to name a few.