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The Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 193rd Special Operations Wing had to call in a beekeeper to rescue a swarm of honeybees from an MC-130J late last month.

Pentagon leaders honored the victims of 9/11 in multiple ceremonies on the 23rd anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 Americans and shaped the U.S. military in the 21st century.

In conflicts with peer and near-peer adversaries, U.S. air crews will be contested in the air and on the airwaves. They’ll face not just kinetic attacks, but also radars, advanced air defense systems, and other electromagnetic effects seeking to disrupt their missions.

The U.S. Air Force Academy is investigating the death of a freshman cadet who was found unconscious in her Colorado Springs dormitory last week, the school said Sept. 5.

The AIM-120 AMRAAM will likely be the complement to the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile, a Raytheon executive said. He characterized the JATM as an expensive, "kick-down-the-door" weapon, while he argued that AMRAAM is the more affordable missile to be used in larger quantities.

On Sept. 10, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. held a ground-breaking ceremony for the Air Force’s first ever privatized apartment complex, which is meant to help close a growing housing gap at the remote base.

The U.S. is pushing to expand the production of key munitions for the Ukrainian military, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer said. “From an industrial base perspective, it’s largely been a battle of attrition,” William A. LaPlante, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, told reporters while traveling last week…

The Air Force stood up its first of six Air Task Forces—the 12th Air Task Force—at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., last week, starting the next wave of change for its deployment model.

The Air Force will display full-scale models of the two competitors for Increment 1 of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program at next week's AFA Air, Space & Cyber Conference.