In recognition of her volunteer efforts to help refurbish a long-neglected British cemetery in Habbaniyah, Iraq, USAF Capt. Jutta Cortes has been asked to march with British veterans of the Royal Air Force Habbaniyah Association Nov. 12 at The Cenotaph war memorial in London. Cortes, now deputy director of security forces for 20th Air Force at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo, served in Iraq as a military training advisor at Habbaniyah, a former RAF base.
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.