Lt. Col. Tadd Sholtis was the first airman to receive a doctorate degree from one of Air University’s schools at Maxwell AFB, Ala., not the first airman overall to earn a doctorate degree from AU as we reported on Tuesday. Airmen have been earning doctorate degrees from the Air Force Institute of Technology, a part of AU located at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, for decades. Traditionally, the Maxwell campus, which includes institutes like AU’s Air War College, Air Command and Staff College, and School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, has offered master’s degrees. We’ve revised our original entry to make this point clear.
The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas—will be a “case study” on the complex web of authorities needed to employ such weapons near civilian areas and the consequences of agencies…
