President George Bush spent the July 4 holiday at Ft. Bragg, N.C., where he thanked the soldiers of Bragg’s 82nd Airborne Division and airmen of next-door’s Pope Air Force Base, as well as their families, for their efforts during the war on terror. In his remarks, Bush noted the link between the soldiers and airmen, saying that it is the “men and women of Pope Air Force Base who put the ‘air’ in Airborne.”
One of the Air Force and Navy’s most common air-to-air missiles is falling short of a key readiness metric, and the services are ramping up stocks of a vital air-to-ground missile, according to recent Pentagon reports.
