SrA. James A. Hansen, 25, of Athens, Mich., died Wednesday of wounds suffered during a controlled detonation at JB Balad, Iraq, the Defense Department has announced. Hansen was assigned to the 46th Operations Support Squadron at Eglin AFB, Fla. He was one of the roughly 6,000 airmen still in Iraq supporting Operation New Dawn, the advise-and-assist mission that supplanted Operation Iraqi Freedom on Sept. 1. (DOD release)
The 60th Air Mobility Wing conducted its final 'A-check' inspection on their KC-10 Extender fleet at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. There are no further inspections scheduled for the fleet before the aircraft's decommission in September.