If the law regarding homosexuals serving in the military is changed, “there is no doubt in my mind the Air Force will implement it professionally,” Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said Wednesday afternoon at the Four-Star Forum during AFA’s Air & Space Conference in Washington, D.C. The Air Force will figure out rules governing everything from billeting to “PDAs” [personal displays of affection], but Schwartz said there is “one bottom line: The standards of conduct do not change.”
The Air Force and Boeing agreed to a nearly $2.4 billion contract for a new lot of KC-46 aerial tankers on Nov. 21. The deal, announced by the Pentagon, is for 15 new aircraft in Lot 11 at a cost of $2.389 billion—some $159 million per tail.