The Pentagon has identified an airman killed Oct. 14 by enemy gunfire while he was working with a military police training team in Iraq. He was A1C Leebernard E. Chavis, a security forces airman deployed from the 23rd Wing, Moody AFB, Ga., to the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron at Balad AB, Iraq, according to an Air Force release. At the time of his death he was serving as a turret gunner with the Iraqi police near Baghdad.
The crash of a T-38 trainer jet this May—which caused a weekslong pause in flights across the fleet—was caused by an improperly installed pin for one of the jet’s horizontal stabilizers, according to a new accident report released Oct. 30. When the pin disengaged midflight, it created the slightest amount…