The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers broke ground Sept. 14 on an expansion of Arlington National Cemetery intended to add 80,000 gravesites and to make the Air Force Memorial the face of a new southern entrance to the cemetery. The expansion, which will include the ...
Retired Lt. Gen. Robert D. Springer, a Vietnam veteran who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, and who served as the inaugural director of the Air Force Memorial Foundation, shepherding the project through its controversial early years, died Aug. 19 at the age of 88.
The Air Force’s only undergraduate remotely piloted aircraft training center was redubbed “Crawford Hall” in honor of WWII pilot Ollie Crawford, an Air Force Association charter member who went on to lead the organization as national president and chairman, in a Nov. 13 ceremony at ...