Afghanistan remained a busy place for Air Force strike aircraft June 6-7, according to Air Forces Central. Near Bagram on June 6, for example, A-10s took out enemy combatants with 500-pound laser-guided bombs, the command said in a release. And in Now Zad, F-15Es struck enemy combatants with the same type bomb. Highlights of activities on June 7 include B-1B bomber attacks with 500-pound and 2,000-pound joint direct attack munitions against enemy firing positions in Musa Qal’eh and against an enemy building and a weapons cache in Gardez, AFCENT said in the airpower summary for that day. In total, coalition aircraft flew 52 close air support missions in Afghanistan on June 6 and 46 on June 7. In Iraq, there were 56 CAS missions on June 6 and an identical number on the following day, AFCENT said.
The Air Force general who oversees the nation’s land-based nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile fleet said he is strongly committed to an ongoing study of cancer cases among crews who worked around ICBMs. “I'm the commander of this mission, and if I don't care, who does?” Gen. Thomas A. Bussiere, commander…