It was April 19 when the Air Force actually went over the one million mark for sorties supporting the global war on terror, service officials told the Daily Report Tuesday. We reported earlier that the service anticipated hitting that astonishing figure on April 21. Officials would not speculate which particular sortie or which aircraft and crew on April 19 actually broke the one million sortie mark.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
