Officials 
at Osan AB, South Korea, last week held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the base’s new, 82,000 square-foot passenger air terminal. Flights are set to begin from there Monday. It will serve as the new transit hub for service members making permanent change of station to and from the Korean peninsula. Such “Patriot Express” flights resumed in April at Osan after a five-year pause. “This world-class facility will be one that our families and military members will walk through with pride,” said Lt. Gen. Robert Allardice, 18th Air Force commander, at the Sept. 27 ceremony. The facility is nearly five times larger than its predecessor, offering a lounge, reception, and service center, along with shuttle service to the Army garrison at Yongsan. USAF and Army construction units and Korean contractors completed the project in 33 months. (Osan report by SSgt. Eric Burks)
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.