US Transportation Command has extended Patriot Express flights throughout Japan for an additional year. They will continue to fly through Sept. 30, 2006, following a new agreement US Pacific Command reached with TRANSCOM.
A new Air Force plan for how many fighters it needs in the next decade marks a sharp upturn from what it thought it needed just seven years ago. But analysts worry that the aspirational plan now in Congress' hands doesn’t make a tight enough connection to national strategy.
