Airmen from 815th Airlift Squadron from Keesler AFB, Miss., were among the roughly 400 US troops who helped commemorate D-Day in France this week. First Lt. Will Garey, a pilot with the 815th AS, said he could see camera flashes as he flew over Sainte-Mere-Eglise during a reenactment ceremony June 3 in the Normandy region. Garey and other airmen visited with members of the community after the flyover. John and Esther Van Vlaardingen, of the Netherlands, participated in the re-enactment as actors, and took a tour of the 815th AS’s C-130J before the flyover. They said it was great to see the “Flying Jennies” again, seven years after meeting a pilot from the squadron at another commemoration. June 6 was the 72nd anniversary of the allied invasion of Normandy.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week released strategies meant to focus the Pentagon’s “alphabet soup” of innovation organizations and proliferate artificial intelligence—moves that experts say could provide the structure needed to make the military’s efforts to integrate and field new technology more effective.
