Retired MSgt. James T. Price, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II fame, died July 20 of injuries sustained in a fall several weeks earlier, according to a July 29 release from Osan AB, South Korea, where Price served as a mentor to airmen and the community. He served with the Tuskegee Airmen as a B-25 gunner. Price continued to serve after the war, with tours in the US, England, and Korea, and retired in 1966. (Osan report by SSgt. Candy Knight)
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…