Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz plans Friday to fly in the first new C-130J destined for the 317th Airlift Group at Dyess AFB, Tex., reports the Abilene Reporter News. A base spokesman told the newspaper that Dyess expects to receive 28 J model Hercules to replace its older Herks, receiving the last by 2013.
The U.S. military has accepted six new F-35 fighters without radars installed—but none so far for the Air Force. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Gregory Masiello, the head of the F-35 Joint Program Office, told lawmakers June 23 that the Marines have to date accepted six short takeoff and vertical landing…