USAF deactivates the first of five Peacekeeper ICBM launch control centers (LCCs), part of the deactivation of all 50 Peacekeepers begun in October 2002.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.