Some 6,000 people 
housed in shelters at the Mississippi base stepped outside late Tuesday to view the damage—or perhaps just to breathe the air—stated an Air Force news release. But first up was a hot meal. Wednesday they got their first look at on-base housing. Check out this image from the golf course. We understand the scene was similar throughout much of the Gulf Coast training facility. Much further inland, Columbus AFB, Miss., escaped Katrina’s wrath, sustaining uprooted trees and some roofing damage.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
