The Air Force is still toting up and verifying claims it has received following the New Jersey fire sparked by an Air National Guard F-16 earlier this year, but the service has revealed that one claim, filed Aug. 1 by the Phoenix Pinelands Corp., is for $197.7 million. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the corporation is a sand mining company based in Little Egg Harbor Township. That one claim amounts to almost the entire $200 million in claims the service currently has received. The review of the incident continues, but it already has resulted in leadership changes within the units involved.
The Air Force has dispatched an element of its Natural Disaster Recovery Team to Guam in the wake of Super Typhoon Mawar, which has caused widespread damage on the island and at Andersen Air Force Base. The team will assess the damage and put together a recovery cost estimate for…