A team of 11 airmen of the 1st Expeditionary RED HORSE Group deployed to Southwest Asia since April have put together pallets and shipped more than 2.6 million tons of cargo and equipment to 10 forward operation locations to aid RED HORSE construction projects like the one above. “In all my 22 years of Air Force experience, I have never seen anything as impressive as this team,” said MSgt. Richard Hovik, 1st ERHG superintendent, who is deployed from Malmstrom AFB, Mont. The team comprises airmen from different bases and disciplines, which SSgt. Brandon Long, an electrical craftsman deployed from Dover AFB, Del., said presented “a challenge” at first, but the team was “able to work out the kinks” and has become “twice as productive” as when they started. (SWA report by SrA. Michael Matkin)
For the last few years, through a little-known program called Kronos, the Space Force has been consolidating and modernizing its suite of legacy systems that provide operators with intelligence tools and command-and-control capabilities in an increasingly contested space environment. Now, USSF is reaching out to commercial firms to prototype and…
