The center for Air Force basic training is still reporting a significant number of recruits with adenovirus serotype 14, but the number has come down from earlier this year, reports the San Antonio Express-News. The new strain killed one airman, who had just graduated from basic, earlier this year and another eight people in Oregon, Texas, and Washington, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Officials at Lackland do not attribute the situation to anything other than Mother Nature.
This year’s Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting buzzed with talk of countering the rapidly evolving drone threat facing the entire U.S. military, including the Air Force. Leaders and defense industry officials discussed the need for new approaches to procurement and employment of a new class of these…