The South Carolina Air National Guard is about to reap BRAC 2005 harvest with the Thursday arrival of the first of nine F-16CJ fighters coming from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, reports The State newspaper. Picking up the additional Vipers will be ANG’s 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire ANGS, S.C., where they will join 18 existing F-16CJs.
Unit commanders are being told to separate service members who can’t shave their cheeks and chin for medical reasons for more than a year, according to new guidance from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.