The Air National Guard’s 186th Air Refueling Wing at Key Field, Miss., will get a new 10,000-square-foot medical training center, funded under the just completed 2006 supplemental for the war on terrorism and hurricane recovery, the Meridian Star reports. The new facility will replace the one damaged during Hurricane Katrina last year.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.