Among the many BRAC decisions rendered by the commission last week are: realignment of the undergraduate navigator training at Randolph AFB, Tex., to NAS Pensacola, Fla.; closure of Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland AFB, Tex., with the creation of a new San Antonio Regional Medical Center, to be housed at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex.; merger of facility operations for Ft. Dix and the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in New Jersey under a central commander at McGuire AFB, N.J.; and closure of Brooks City-Base, Tex., relocating its Air Force Materiel Command units to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
A recent seven-day exercise sent Air Force F-22s—along with other USAF aircraft—to austere, challenging environments across Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Agile Reaper, taking place for the second time after its inaugural edition last year, featured 800 Airmen and 29 aircraft across five different locations from April 10-16, training…