Air Force Security Forces in US Air Forces in Europe have totally revamped the command’s regional training program, known as “Creek Defender,” run by the 768th Security Forces Squadron at Sembach AB, Germany. Taking direct feedback from security forces members who had deployed to Southwest Asia operations, the squadron created more than 40 new lesson plans—taking the Defender from instruction-based to one that focuses on how to counteract insurgent threats, reports USAF journalist MSgt. John Lasky.
The Air Force on March 12 awarded contract modifications worth a combined $2.4 billion to Boeing to procure an undisclosed number of E-7 Wedgetail as part of the program's engineering and manufacturing development phase and continue work on the airborne battle management aircraft’s radar.