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.
The Pentagon fulfilled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's promise to slash the number of Religious Affiliation Codes used by the military to track the volume of members adhering to different religions and to shape the chaplain corps to support them. The change reduces the number of religions counted for such purposes…