The Airlift Tanker Association has inducted its first group into the Airlift/Tanker Association Hall of Fame, naming eight airmen to represent aeromedical evacuation team members. Making the presentation was retired Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Chief of Staff, who said the association had chosen a “few instrumental personnel to represent the Legacy of AE across the decades.” Those chosen are: Lt. Gen. Paul K. Carlton Jr. (Ret.); Col. Regina Aune (Ret.); Col. Bud Traynor (Ret.); Col. Bob Brannon (Ret.); Reservist Col. Jay Johanniggman; Capt. Reba (Whittle) Tobiason (posthumously); Reservist CMSgt. Rodney Christa; and MSgt. Mark McElroy (Ret.).
The long-standing method for communicating data down from space via radio frequencies has the potential to create deadly data bottlenecks that could slow and stymie future operations, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. The report makes the case for combining RF with optical communications…