Saved in Terre Haute: Indiana Air Guardsmen of the 181st Fighter Wing in Terre Haute still have to give up their F-16s (to neighboring Fort Wayne, no less) under BRAC 2005, but they get two new missions in exchange, reports the Terre Haute Tribune-Star. The Pentagon plans to put an intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance data analysis unit (called a Distributed Common Ground Station) and an Air Support Operations Squadron (read that battlefield airmen) at Terre Haute. Combined, the two new missions will require about 420 Air Guardsmen.
A year after Typhoon Mawar hit Guam, the Air Force estimates it will need nearly $9.7 billion to rebuild and improve its facilities on the island. The number is close to double the $4.39 billion spent to date rebuilding Tyndall and Offutt Air Force Bases in Florida and Nebraska after…