On Thursday, some 70 airmen assigned to Keesler AFB, Miss., who have been serving tours in Southwest Asia were due in to Houston. The Air Force planned to send them on to Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio, where they would start the task of finding family members who were evacuated from Keesler.
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…