A news report from Michigan claims that a state forester has found the wreckage of an Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion that crashed in 1964 after taking off from K.I. Sawyer AFB, Mich. The pilot, who ejected safely, was with the Minnesota ANG, reports WLUC TV 6 news. The question of the moment is why the wreckage was never removed. A Minnesota Guard spokesman told the news station that “times were much different then.”
Gas is king in the vast expanse of the Pacific. And as the Pentagon has sought to build up its capability to deter China, the Department of Defense has undergone a major rethink about how to get fuel to the region. At the heart of the effort is the U.S. Transportation…