Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh assigned Maj. Gen. Margaret Woodward, Air Force chief of safety, to be the next director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office in Air Force headquarters, announced the Pentagon. The announcement came on June 7. Woodward has been safety chief since September 2012; in that role, she’s also been in charge of the Air Force Safety Center at Kirtland AFB, N.M. She led the Air Force’s investigation into the service’s basic training set-up after a rash of sexual misconduct among its military training instructors.
Over the past 20 years, military explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians have become very good at using high-tech tools like robots, communications jammers, smartphones, and next-generation bomb suits to disable improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in crowded urban environments. When it comes to a possible conflict with a near-peer adversary like…