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.
The B-52H Stratofortress that crashed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on June 15 was helping test a new advanced radar that is key to a sweeping modernization of the six-decade old bomber.