Air Force firefighters from the 349th and 60th Civil Engineer Squadrons at Travis AFB, Calif., won the World Firefighter Combat Challenge team competition for the second year in a row. The Travis team beat more than 240 firefighters from around the world during the Deerfield Beach, Fla., competition last week. Teams competed in five task areas—climbing a five-story tower, hosting and chopping, dragging hoses, and rescuing a life-size victim, all in “full bunker gear.”
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…