Among the many BRAC decisions rendered by the commission last week are: realignment of the undergraduate navigator training at Randolph AFB, Tex., to NAS Pensacola, Fla.; closure of Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland AFB, Tex., with the creation of a new San Antonio Regional Medical Center, to be housed at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex.; merger of facility operations for Ft. Dix and the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in New Jersey under a central commander at McGuire AFB, N.J.; and closure of Brooks City-Base, Tex., relocating its Air Force Materiel Command units to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
A-10 Thunderbolt II attack planes in the Middle East are flying with fresh modifications as the Air Force looks to make the plane more versatile amid America’s ongoing blockade of Iranian ports and a tenuous ceasefire in the U.S. air war against Iran.