The Air Force has awarded Bronze Star medals to two explosive ordnance disposal technicians at Beale AFB, Calif., for their actions while deployed to Iraq. MSgt. William Arganda oversaw EOD operations at a forward operating base near Baghdad, while TSgt. John Lewis worked as a team leader for a weapons intelligence team, first near Tikrit and then near Baghdad.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.