Army Capt. Charles deForest Chandler and Army Lt. T.D. Milling and Lt. H.H. “Hap” Arnold become the first fliers to qualify as “Military Aviators.”
Looking to make a quick start on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sweeping “FORTRESS America” program to make every military base in the U.S. more self sufficient, the Pentagon is dialing up its efforts in an area the Air Force has been working for several years: energy resilience and independence.