An airman assigned to 11th Air Force at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, died Wednesday in a gun attack by an Afghan air force officer on ISAF military personnel at Kabul Air Base. The Air Force has not yet released the airman’s name, pending notification of kin. The airman was among the eight US troops and one US contractor whom the Afghan officer killed. (Elmendorf release) (See Los Angeles Times report for account of incident.)
Exasperated with the delays to the F-35’s Tech Refresh 3 update—which has held up deliveries of completed fighters since last fall—the House Armed Services Committee wants to slash the military services’ fiscal 2025 F-35 purchase by at least 10 aircraft and as much as 20.