Readers may recall our item (DR, 09/27/05) taking note of a Sept. 23 meeting of some 100 Air Force general officers at a hotel in Omaha. USAF’s new Chief of Staff, Gen. Michael Moseley, had called the brass together for a free-flowing session. In at least one sense, he got it. We are told that more than half of the attendees were sickened by the Norwalk virus, a nasty food-poisoning bug that produces nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Moseley himself was a victim.
The Royal International Air Tattoo, one of the world’s biggest annual air shows, will permanently move from its longtime home of RAF Fairford, a longtime base for the U.S. Air Force, to a different military installation in the United Kingdom, its organizers announced Nov. 4.