A brace of B-2 stealth bombers is back on Guam after a long absence, and that’s exactly why they’re there, Air Force Global Strike Command chief Lt. Gen. James Kowalski told defense reporters in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. “It’s been a long break” since two B-2 accidents on Guam—which resulted in one airplane destroyed in 2008 and one heavily damaged in 2010—and Kowalski said it’s time to get B-2 pilots back up to speed on operating in the Pacific. “We wanted to get healthy again” after the accidents, and allow time for the B-2 Radar Modernization Program to refit on most of the aircraft before resuming the Guam deployments, he said during the Feb. 6 roundtable. The crews and aircraft will rotate in and out for training periods lasting up to several weeks.
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.