The 436th Civil Engineer Squadron environmental restoration staff at Dover AFB, Del., has won the 2006 Air Force General Thomas D. White Environmental Restoration Award, which honors the installation with the best restoration program. The Dover staff managed to provide a remedy-in-place six years ahead of the base goal to remediate 59 locations where contaminants historically had leaked into the environment.
Amid NATO’s continued push to ramp up air defenses in Eastern Europe, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall swung by seven allied countries to boost relations last week, including those on Russia’s and Ukraine’s doorstep.