Air Force Reserve Command’s 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell AFB, Ala., got its first revamped C-130 Hercules last week, and the Montgomery Advertiser reports that the unit considers the $10 million upgrade “a bargain.” The “new” C-130 is part of the Air Force’s planned C-130 avionics modernization program, which currently is under review for breaching the Nunn-McCurdy threshold. Air Force officials expect to decide a way forward for the program this month.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. still “believes” in his mantra of “Accelerate Change or Lose”—and indicated the doctrinal changes it produced when he was Air Force Chief of Staff played a role in the service’s recent response to Iran’s aerial assault on Israel, he…