Retired MSgt. James T. Price, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II fame, died July 20 of injuries sustained in a fall several weeks earlier, according to a July 29 release from Osan AB, South Korea, where Price served as a mentor to airmen and the community. He served with the Tuskegee Airmen as a B-25 gunner. Price continued to serve after the war, with tours in the US, England, and Korea, and retired in 1966. (Osan report by SSgt. Candy Knight)
The Air Force on March 12 awarded contract modifications worth a combined $2.4 billion to Boeing to procure an undisclosed number of E-7 Wedgetail as part of the program's engineering and manufacturing development phase and continue work on the airborne battle management aircraft’s radar.