Five Army Air Forces airmen finally received Bronze Stars for their heroic actions in World War II. The airmen—whose paperwork was misfiled and rediscovered 62 years later—received their medals during a ceremony in Washington. They were unaware they were up for the prestigious award until a 39th Troop Carrier Association member contacted them with the news. The five men were just a few on the long list of the 317th Troop Carrier Group airmen authorized for the medal, but many had passed away or could not be contacted. (Read their names and more here.)
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.
