SSgt. Jesse Childress, 29, an Air Force Reservist assigned to the 310th Forces Support Squadron at Buckley AFB, Colo., died in the mass shooting on July 20 in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., near Denver, announced Air Force officials on July 22. Childress, from Thornton, Colo., was a cyber systems operator on active duty orders. He was among the 12 fatalities and scores of wounded in the incident. Another Reservist was wounded in the shooting attack, according to the officials. This airman, also on active duty orders at Buckley, left a hospital on July 21 after treatment, they said. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John Larimer, 27, of Crystal Lake, Ill., also died in the shooting, announced the Navy. Another sailor was injured. Alleged gunman James Holmes is in police custody.
A new Navy missile could fill a long-range air-to-air need for the U.S. Air Force’s fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-generation fighters. The Navy’s portfolio acquisition executive for munitions posted information on the AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile online on Aug. 22, the same day it unveiled the project at the service’s…