Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz plans Friday to fly in the first new C-130J destined for the 317th Airlift Group at Dyess AFB, Tex., reports the Abilene Reporter News. A base spokesman told the newspaper that Dyess expects to receive 28 J model Hercules to replace its older Herks, receiving the last by 2013.
The Air Force has not found a higher death rate from cancer among missileers and other members who served decades ago near America’s nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, service officials said Jan. 30. “Basically, for all mortality calculations, cancer rates were...