CMSgt. James Tauscher, currently assigned to the 15th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, received a Bronze Star medal last year for his actions as a combat aviation advisor to the Coalition Air Forces Transition Team in Iraq. During a deployment of more than one year, Tauscher led more than 140 coalition C-130 maintenance technicians who supported units that transported key Iraqi government and military officials. Tauscher received the medal during a ceremony at Hickam on May 8, 2008. We just became aware of Tauscher’s award. It’s never too late to give someone proper recognition.
GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney received matching $3.5 billion contracts to prototype their versions of the Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion engine this week, and the CEO of Pratt’s parent company, RTX, said things are looking up for the military engine business, even if the platform that could use NGAP is…