AFA National President Bob Largent says the airmen—active, Guard, and Reserve—he has talked with on his tour of US Central Command’s area of operations are professional, resourceful, and dedicated. He notes the creative enhancements one unit of airmen developed to make their “Army duty” safer and more efficient and more. Read about it here.
House lawmakers unveiled a new reconciliation package July 15 with $60 billion for defense, $290 billion less than the Pentagon has been seeking, a day after a Senate vote to advance the annual defense policy bill failed—developments that show the perilous state of the Pentagon’s ambitious plans for fiscal 2027.