An op-ed in The Reporter expresses support for the commissioners of the Solano County Airport Land Use Commission, who, earlier this month, refused to “rubber-stamp” a request by Wal-Mart to build a super center near Travis AFB, Calif. Commissioner John Foster had the foresight to bring a map of Dover AFB, Del., with the site of the 2006 C-5 crash marked, and overlay it onto a map of Travis. The proposed developed lay within the crash area. Should “even one such accident” striking a “store packed” with shoppers “could be a reason for the federal government to shut down the base and eliminate the 14,000 jobs.”
The top Air Force commander on on the Japanese island of Okinawa has clamped down alcohol and issued a curfew for junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians at Kadena Air Base for the next month. The order came roughly two weeks after a U.S. Marine was arrested for allegedly robbing and…