Lt. Col. Craig Hall, deputy commander of the 325th Maintenance Group, Tyndall AFB, Fla., was awarded the Bronze Star medal. Hall served as commander of the 379th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron in Southwest Asia where he helped set up an organizational structure and buildings to sustain operations at a bare base. Overall his team directed the generation of more than 21,000 combat sorties and 75,000 flying hours with six different weapon systems in both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas—will be a “case study” on the complex web of authorities needed to employ such weapons near civilian areas and the consequences of agencies…
