The Defense Department announced May 21 that 1st Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte, 25, had died May 20 of wounds received from an improvised explosive device near Kabul, Afghanistan. The St. Louis, Mo., native had deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom from Headquarters Pacific Air Forces at Hickam AFB, Hawaii. According to an Air Force release last year about a Virtual Flag exercise, Schulte had served as an intelligence and reconnaissance officer with the 613th Air and Space Operations Center, part of 13th Air Force at Hickam.
Former AFCENT Commander Reflects on Lessons of Epic Fury
Sept. 13, 2026
Operation Epic Fury marked the U.S. military's largest air campaign in a generation, with strikes on 13,000 targets in Iran before the first in a series of shaky ceasefires began in April. Now, even as hostilities continue to flare up, Lt. Gen. Derek C. France sees several clear lessons that…


