There are still people who do not know that the military services employ civilians. It came as welcome news to many of the 300 Hispanic teens attending the Viva Technology Day, co-sponsored by DOD and the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corp., in Anaheim, Calif. Air Force Col. James J. Campbell, with the Pentagon’s personnel and readiness office, talked, in particular, about USAF’s civilian scientists and engineers.
U.S. Southern Command recently announced its first lethal strike on a suspected narco-trafficking vessel in two months, and the first under a newly formed permanent counter-cartel task force. The U.S. is also reportedly planning to transfer MQ-9 drones to Colombia to bolster its counter-cartel efforts.