USAF Lt. Col. Marcelyn A. Atwood, at NAS Pensacola, Fla., becomes the first woman to command a training squadron and the first USAF officer to command a Navy squadron. The squadron trains both Air Force and Navy pilots.
A record investment in research and development by the Department of the Air Force will help the United States win the long-term technology race with China, even while shrinking the fleet size before a possible mid-decade Taiwan contingency, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said May 17. “With the Air Force,…