The Air Force has renamed the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, headquartered at Brooks City-Base, Tex., to the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment—the acronym, therefore, is still AFCEE. A base release says the new name “more accurately reflects the organization’s increased scope of responsibilities.” AFCEE now oversees the service’s military construction, military family housing, and environmental restoration, part of a centralization move by the Air Force.
The crash of a T-38 trainer jet this May—which caused a weekslong pause in flights across the fleet—was caused by an improperly installed pin for one of the jet’s horizontal stabilizers, according to a new accident report released Oct. 30. When the pin disengaged midflight, it created the slightest amount…