Retired Col. Christopher “Sunshine” Hannon, a former rescue pilot and commander of the 920th Operations Group at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., was killed Feb. 2 when a vehicle struck his bicycle in Vero Beach.
As the Pentagon seeks to build a fitter force, everything is under review — from a new PT test to eliminating the dreaded body fat tape test to changing how troops eat and exercise.
A colonel has been named to take over command of 375th Air Mobility Wing at Scott Air Force weeks after the previous commander lost the job amid sexual misconduct allegations.
Aurora has struggled to get the U.S. Air Force interested in ultrahigh-endurance drones that, in the case of its Orion aircraft, can stay aloft up to 100 hours. But the company's CEO thinks the service just might be changing its mind.