House appropriators ripped a proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships contained in President Joe Biden’s Pentagon budget request for next year as “a misuse of taxpayer funds.”
Airmen from the 61st Airlift Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, were flying a mission in support of a quick-reaction force when their Super Hercules came under small-arms fire.
Winter storms earlier this year caused more than $72 million in damages at Air Force installations across the country, as well as minor harm to two aircraft.
In this excerpt from Kevin Maurer’s 2020 book “Rock Force,” we meet Pvt. Lloyd McCarter as he and the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment prepare for the airborne assault in February 1945.