Hikers in Kings Canyon National Park in California discovered a body buried in ice in one of the park’s most inaccessible areas, and investigators believe the body could be the remains of a World War II Army Air Forces airman killed on a training flight that crashed in the Sierra Nevada in 1942, the Los Angeles Times reports. An investigator from DOD’s Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command has flown to California to join in efforts to extract the body from 13,710-foot high Mount Mandel. Wreckage from the crash of an Army Air Forces AT-7 was discovered in the same area in 1947, five years after the aircraft was reported missing.
The top Air Force commander on on the Japanese island of Okinawa has clamped down alcohol and issued a curfew for junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians at Kadena Air Base for the next month. The order came roughly two weeks after a U.S. Marine was arrested for allegedly robbing and…