Air Force security forces deployed to Bagram AB, Afghanistan, have formed the Fly-Away Security Team to provide specially trained airmen to fly with and protect the aircrews and C-130 tactical cargo aircraft that fly into remote airfields in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region. Once a C-130 lands, the FAST airmen are first off, setting up around the aircraft to watch the surrounding country as the aircrew unloads the aircraft. In flight, FAST airmen provide “cockpit denial” when the aircraft hauls foreign nationals or prisoners.
The Air National Guardsman who was arrested last year for sharing hundreds of top secret and classified documents to online chatrooms was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on Nov. 12 after pleading guilty to several charges this March.