Remember the old Citizen Watch days? The Air Force Office of Special Investigation has reinvented that effort, calling their new program Eagle Eyes. OSI is moving the program out to the civilian populace surrounding Air Force bases. In Valdosta, Ga., home of Moody Air Force Base, the OSI team works with area law enforcement officials, but they also are co-opting local businesses to become “watchdogs” for suspicious activity near the base, reports the Valdosta Times. OSI agent Christian Thomasson told the Times, “This is a community watch program. People wake up and know … if something doesn’t fit in.”
The Pentagon’s cost estimate for the Iran War has risen to $37.5 billion, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a congressional committee July 21—and without emergency supplemental funding, the military will have to “curtail” training to cover those costs, he added.