Daily Report

Jan. 13, 2014

Negotiating with Iran

The United States and other world leaders have agreed on a way to implement a joint plan of action aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, according to statements from the White House and Department of State. Beginning Jan....

Congress Standardizes MOH Process

The 2014 National Defense Authorization Act changed the review process for awarding the nation’s highest military honor for valor in combat. Specifically, the bill lifted a long-standing restriction that prevented a service member from earning multiple Medals of Honor, even...

Three Americans Killed in Afghanistan MC-12 Crash

Two coalition service members and one International Security Force civilian were killed when their aircraft crashed on Jan. 10 in Eastern Afghanistan, reported ISAF officials. Although the ISAF casualty report does not list the nationalities of the victims or the...

Fighting for Airpower

The former vice commander of the Air Force’s 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB, Mo., has penned a critique of a recent Foreign Affairs article that suggested American military power would be more effective if the US dismantled the Air...

Air Warfare Center Commander Fired

Air Force Special Operations Command boss Lt. Gen. Eric Fiel relieved Brig. Gen. Jon Weeks from command of AFSOC’s Air Warfare Center at Hurlburt Field, Fla., on Jan. 9, due to a “loss of trust and confidence in his leadership.”...

Defense Nominations Sent to the Senate

The Senate Armed Services Committee approved the nominations of Jamie Morin, the Air Force’s top financial manager, to be the Defense Department’s director of cost assessment and program evaluation; Frank Klotz, former commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, to...

General Officer Movements

Brig. Gen. Scott Smith, deputy commander of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, has been tapped to be the inspector general for Headquarters Air Mobility Command at Scott AFB, Ill., according to a Jan. 9 general...

Franklin Retires as a Two Star

Third Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin will retire as a two-star, confirmed a US Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa spokeswoman. Franklin’s decision to overturn a military sexual assault conviction in February 2013 sparked a contentious debate on...

Ten Candles and 14 Friends

NATO’s Baltic air policing mission recently celebrated a decade defending the airspace over the allied member states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. “The execution of this mission by different allies to an exacting level of performance…highlights the importance of bringing...

Correction

An entry in Thursday’s column on the International Space Exploration Forum in Washington, D.C., should have stated that China was the third country to successfully land on the moon. We’ve corrected the original entry.