The Pentagon recently named Misawa AB, Japan, as one of the five “best of the best” installations in DOD for 2005. The Commander in Chief’s Installation Excellence Award goes to facilities that provide excellent mission support using “resources available to them.”
The new F-15E and F-15EX electronic warfare suite, meant to protect the fourth-generation fighters in contested battlespace—was shown to be “operationally effective” and “suitable,” the Pentagon's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation said.