According to an Abilene Reporter-News report, Goodfellow Air Force Base, near San Angelo, Tex., also is under consideration to train the Air Force’s cyber warriors. We reported Wednesday that a trio of Texas lawmakers sent a letter to Gen. Norton Schwartz, Chief of Staff, urging the service to assign the cyber training mission to Sheppard Air Force Base, outside Wichita Falls, principally because Sheppard is losing its medical training mission as part of BRAC 2005 actions. Air Education and Training Command also is considering Keesler AFB, Miss., for the cyber training role.
One of the Air Force and Navy’s most common air-to-air missiles is falling short of a key readiness metric, and the services are ramping up stocks of a vital air-to-ground missile, according to recent Pentagon reports.
