US Air Force officials are working with counterparts in Singapore, who want to bring up to 10 F-15s of the Singapore Air Force to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, to establish a training squadron. Any such addition to a US base requires an environmental impact study, which Maj. Damien Pickart, Mountain Home public affairs chief, says should be complete in March. Mountain Home is shedding its F-16s and F-15Cs and picking up F-15Es from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, courtesy of BRAC 2005.
In the face of Chinese war plans to disrupt U.S. command-and-control networks in the event of a conflict, the Air Force needs to focus less on its “connect everything” efforts and prepare its combat aviators to fight without a constant connection to higher-ups, according to a new report from AFA’s…
