Members of the famed Tuskegee Airmen gathered at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, recently to talk about the early years of racial integration in the military. Lt. Col. James Harvey III and Lt. Col. Harry Stewart jointly lectured on the “Integration of the Air Force: the Early Years.” The two retired Air Forces pilots were joined by another Tuskegee Airman, retired MSgt. Buford Johnson, a crew chief, for a tour of the museum. The Tuskegee veterans credit the Air Force as being at the forefront of racial integration, but Stewart said he believes there is still “token resistance here and there.”
The U.S. continued to move a significant amount of airpower toward the Middle East in recent days as talks to forge a nuclear deal with Iran hung in the balance. Flight tracking data indicate there was unusually heavy movement of dozens of fighter jets and other assets that might be…
