Airmen from F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo., joined with Colorado state road crew to free a man trapped in his vehicle for some 13 hours by four feet of snow. Requested by the Sheriff’s Department at 3:14 a.m. on Dec. 21, four airmen from a Warren missile alert facility began searching through the blizzard at 3:30 a.m. According to a base news release, it took the airmen four hours to travel two miles, one airman driving a Case front-end loader to clear the roadway for the other three in a pick-up truck. After more than five hours the airmen and road crew found the stranded driver.
The House of Representatives passed a massive appropriations package with defense funding Jan. 22, moving lawmakers one step closer to passing a budget for fiscal 2026 and avoiding another government shutdown. The spending package includes cuts in funding for the B-21 Raider bomber and the LRSO missile.
