Dozens of airmen returned to Delaware following a four-month rotation to Afghanistan, with another 14 heading out on another deployment. About 130 members of the Delaware Air National Guard’s 166th Airlift Wing are returning from a 120 day rotation in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel — the continued US military mission in Afghanistan. Four C-130Hs are returning back from the deployment as well. The base on April 10 will hold a ceremony for the airmen who are returning from the deployment. Four of the unit’s C-130Hs and more than 150 airmen are still deployed to Afghanistan, and will return over the next six months, according to a 166th Airlift Wing release. The airmen flew cargo and troops throughout Afghanistan, along with Iraq and southwest Asia. Fourteen separate airmen, members of the 166th’s aeromedical evacuation mission, are deploying April 10 to various overseas and stateside missions, according to the release.
NASA Boss: Race to Moon Has National Security Stakes
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NASA is pushing hard to get astronauts back to the moon by 2028—and the urgency is driven in no small part by the national security implications of doing so before China does, Administrator Jared Isaacman said Sept. 15.
