Why do women in the military have to accept strange, demeaning, cruel, and even unlawful rites of passage to belong, asks the author of this commentary.
The youngest and flashiest bomber, the stealthy B-2, is to be retired first as the Air Force charts a future for it's strategic bombers. The oldest, the Vietnam-era B-52, will retire last.
Despite the recent crash of a B-17 Flying Fortress in Connecticut, most respondents to an Air Force Times poll said they wouldn't hesitate to fly in a vintage World War II aircraft.