The Missouri Air National Guard’s 139th Airlift Wing passed its recent operational readiness inspection—the first such comprehensive inspection of the unit in 10 years—with an A+. The News-Press reports that the inspection team leader, Col. John Almind from Air Mobility Command, called the 139th AW’s review “the best I’ve seen to date.” During the eight-day test of the unit’s ability to operate under stressful conditions, the Missouri Air Guard unit faced some 166 inspectors, who, at the conclusion, recommended the unit for 35 recognition awards—10 team and 25 individual. The 139th AW flies C-130s out of St. Joseph’s Rosecrans Airport.
After years of describing to lawmakers and Pentagon leaders the nature of that threat and the key role spacepower plays in deterring conflict in the domain and enabling the rest of the joint force, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters during AFA’s Warfare Symposium here that the message appears to…