The Maryland Air National Guard’s 175th Wing in Baltimore inactivated its 135th Airlift Group as part of the changes following the wing’s loss of the C-27J flying mission. The inactivation ceremony took place on Sept. 27 at the wing’s home at Warfield ANG Base. Some of the group’s airmen will remain with the wing to be part of the wing’s newly forming network warfare squadron, said wing officials. Other members of the now-defunct group have relocated to different bases to continue their careers in other airlift squadrons, they said. The wing was one of the first Air Guard units to transition to the C-27J, but lost the airplanes after the Air Force decided to divest the C-27 fleet as a cost-saving move. (Baltimore video report by MSgt. Gareth Buckland and TSgt. Christopher Schepers)
The Space Force should take bold, decisive steps—and soon—to develop the capabilities and architecture needed to support more flexible, dynamic operations in orbit and counter Chinese aggression and technological progress, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
