The Nebraska Air National Guard activated two new units—the 170th Group and 238th Combat Training Squadron—at Offutt AFB, Neb., last week. The two units will support the active-duty 55th Wing. The Omaha World Herald reports that there will be no personnel increase because the 170th Group will absorb the Air Guard’s 170th Operations Support Squadron, which has provided pilot training for the 55th Wing’s various reconnaissance platforms, since its formation in 2005. Per BRAC 2005, Nebraska’s only Air Guard wing, the 155th Air Refueling Wing at Lincoln Airport, will lose its KC-135 tankers.
Senator to DOD: Redo Study on Suicide by Job Specialty
Sept. 26, 2024
About two months after the Pentagon released a congressionally mandated study on military suicide rates broken down by career field, the senator who led the charge for the study is telling Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III that the released data falls short of what was required by the law.