USAF and friends have struck numerous targets in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past few days. US Central Air Forces says USAF A-10s used their rockets to mark enemy locations, then strafed them to aid coalition troops near Deh Rawood. During the same Dec. 6 action, RAF GR7s launched general-purpose bombs and rockets. Near Qalat in Afghanistan on Dec. 5, USAF A-10s marked targets, then struck enemy forces with their guns and 500-pound bombs. In Iraq on Dec. 3, USAF F-15s and F-16s struck targets near Balad. The F-15s strafed the enemy and F-16s dropped precision-guided munitions.
In written testimony to the Senate, the nominee to oversee the Air Force’s installations and energy enterprise endorsed the continued privatization of military housing and called for the department to think more during the acquisition process about how it will power new weapons systems when the logistics supply chain is…


