The Air Force plans to hold a public meeting on Dec. 5 to elicit comments about its proposal to create a Common Battlefield Airman Training program at Arnold AFB, Tenn. Arnold and Barksdale AFB, La., and Moody AFB, Ga., are under consideration for the CBAT effort, which could bring some 2,600 additional personnel to either location on a daily basis and construction of classroom and living facilities and training fields.
Advancements in commercial space technology could make President Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense network far more likely to succeed than the failed “Star Wars” strategic umbrella initiative of the 1980s, U.S. Space Command’s top general said May 22....