USAF forms its first “blended” wing arrangement, uniting active duty and Air National Guard airmen in a single wing, the 116th Air Control Wing, to operate and maintain the E-8C JSTARS surveillance aircraft fleet.
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.
