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he commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, Lt. Gen. Michael Wooley, has just capped his 35-year career, with a final flight during which he piloted an AC-130H gunship from AFSOC’s newest facility, Cannon AFB, N.M., to AFSOC’s home at Hurlburt Field, Fla. First Lt. Amy Cooper reports that the aircraft he flew got the traditional hosing, as did Wooley when his wife and four-year-old grandson doused him with a fire hose as he left the aircraft. Wooley relinquished command on Nov. 23 to Maj. Gen. Donald Wurster.
Pentagon officials overseeing homeland counter-drone strategy told lawmakers that even with preliminary moves to bolster U.S. base defenses, the military still lacks the capability to comprehensively identify, track, and engage hostile drones like those that breached the airspace of Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for 17 days in December…