Training at Keesler AFB, Miss., has returned to its pre-Hurricane Katrina status, with enrollment back to 3,400 students just seven months into a three-year plan for restoration, reports the Associated Press news service. Lt. Col. Shane Courvill, deputy director of training, told AP that officials expect approximately 38,000 students to complete training at the Air Education and Training Command base in 2006.
The nation needs a better-coordinated policy for dealing with unmanned aerial systems that threaten domestic bases, Air Force vice chief of staff Gen. James C. Slife told a panel of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He and Pentagon acquisition and sustainment chief William LaPlante co-chair a panel looking at counter-UAS…