Six medical officials from the People’s Liberation Army of China recently visited Hickam AFB, Hawaii, to discuss their infection disease surveillance capabilities with Pacific Air Forces medical personnel. PACAF got an in depth explanation about how the PLA approaches crisis situations. Of particular interest to PACAF was the PLA’s experience in dealing with epidemics such as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
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…