Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson proclaimed that the community-based outpatient clinic in Newark, Ohio, is a “permanent facility” when he dedicated the facility Tuesday. The 3,500-square-foot Newark clinic had opened in March 2004 as a temporary VA clinic. A VA release said, the clinic’s staff of eight provided care to nearly 8,400 patients during Fiscal 2006.
The U.S., South Korea, and Japan flew an unusual trilateral flight with two U.S. B-52H Stratofortress bombers escorted by two Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2s, and two ROK Air Force KF-16 fighters—both countries’ respective variants of the F-16—July 11. That same weekend, the top military officers of the three nations…