Airmen of the 43rd Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron flew the unit’s 3,000th EC-130H Compass Call sortie May 19, a feat accomplished during five years of continuous deployment to operations in Iraq. The unit rotates airmen from its home base at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., to provide communications jamming support to US and coalition ground forces. “I’m pretty impressed that we’ve been able to keep the pace up this long,” said Capt. Benjamin Jody, aircraft commander on the milestone flight. He continued, “It’s a testament to the maintainers out here that we’ve been able to do this many sorties in that amount of time.” (The unit passed 2,500 sorties last summer and 20,000 combat flying hours in February.) (386th Air Expeditionary Wing report by SSgt. Thomas Doscher)
Boeing Claims Progress on T-7 and Other Challenged Programs
April 25, 2025
Boeing appears to have become to overcome the problems that led to billions in losses on fixed-price defense contracts in recent years, point the company back toward profitabily, says Boeing president and CEO Kelly Ortberg.