Air Force Reserve Command’s 403rd Wing at Keesler AFB, Miss., has received the second new longer-fuselaged C-130J Hercules delivered to the Air Force so far in 2006. (It also took delivery of the first J for 2006, last month.) Maj. Gen. Martin Mazick, who is soon to be commander of AFRC’s 22nd Air Force, flew the aircraft from the Lockheed Martin facility at Marietta, Ga. This new J will go to the 403rd Wing’s 815th Airlift Squadron.
The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas—will be a “case study” on the complex web of authorities needed to employ such weapons near civilian areas and the consequences of agencies…
