Aviano AB, Italy, has a new $36.9 million hospital that opened to visitors Tuesday, reports Stars and Stripes. The 18-bed hospital, whose staff actually has been treating patients since the beginning of the month, took over the space allocated to the base’s old clinic.
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.


