The Missouri Congressional delegation announce that USAF has selected the Air National Guard’s 131st Fighter Wing to become the first B-2 bomber associate unit. After BRAC 2005 strips the wing of its F-15 fighters, it will become the 131st Bomb Wing and help operate and maintain the B-2s of the 509th BW at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3