The top enlisted man in the Air Force took a turn loading one of the guns on an Air Force Special Operations Command AC-130H gunship during an orientation flight out of Hurlburt Field, Fla., last week. CMSAF Rodney McKinley called the three days he spent with special operators an “amazing” learning experience. During an enlisted call, McKinley found the airmen highly interested in this summer’s rollout of a new enlisted performance report system that he said would require less time and be “easier to accomplish.”
The U.S. thwarted a drone attack on U.S. forces at Al Asad air base in western Iraq on April 22, marking the first time that American troops have been targeted since February, U.S. officials said. “We can confirm it was an attack on Al Asad,” a defense official told Air & Space…