Personnel at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, got to break bread—or toast—during breakfast with the President and First Lady when Mr. and Mrs. Bush stopped over in Hawaii on Nov. 21 on their way back from Southeast Asia. In remarks, President Bush said: You belong to the finest Armed Forces the world has ever known. I appreciate the fact that you have volunteered to wear our uniform in these troubled times. … It’s an incredible country when people of character stand up and say, I want to serve something greater than my self interests.”
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
