The Pentagon has identified an airman who was killed during operations in Afghanistan Saturday as SrA. Adam P. Servais, 23, of Onalaska, Wis. Servais was a member of Air Force Special Operations Command’s 23rd Special Tactics Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Fla. He died during a four-hour firefight with Taliban extremists in Uruzgan province.
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…