A C-130 transport made a hard landing on Sunday at Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar province, Afghanistan, during an aeromedical evacuation mission, announced Air Forces Central Command officials. There were no injuries in the incident, which occurred at around 2:20 p.m. local time on May 19, they said. The airplane and crew are assigned to the 772nd Airlift Squadron at Kandahar Airfield. The cause of the hard landing is under investigation.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
