Barksdale Hogs Get Top Honor: 
Pilots of the 47th Fighter Squadron from Barksdale AFB, La., won the Top Bombing Team award over the weekend at Hawgsmoke 2006—the biennial competition between A-10 Warthog pilots from around the world taking place at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., reports the Shreveport Times. The 47th FS is part of AFRC’s 917th Wing at Barksdale.
The attack should make the Air Force think about balancing its force design between high-end platforms with “exquisite” capabilities and cheaper, attritable platforms like the one-way drones Ukraine employed, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin told the fourth annual Exchange on Innovation and National Security June 2.