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.”
Air Force Conducts Test Launch of Minuteman III ICBM
May 21, 2025
The Air Force tested an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif,. at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time May. 21. The successful test saw the missile equipped with a single reentry vehicle travel more than 4,200 miles to strike a test site near Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall…