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Weekly News Digest

May 18, 2012
Volume 2, Issue 4  
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Welcome to the Weekly News Digest from Aerotech News and Review, featuring top stories from each of our aerospace and military base newspapers this week.

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GA-ASI, U.K. partners validate new open payload architecture
Aero 5/18/12

 

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. along with SELEX Galileo (a Finmeccanica company) and Cobham Aviation Services, May 16 demonstrated a new open payload architecture during the Sovereign Payload Capability Demonstration held at GA-ASI's Gray Butte Flight Operations Facilities in Palmdale, Calif.  Read more... 

 

Airdrop, Survival Equipment prepare to join 412th OSS
Wings 5/18/12
 

An organization attached to the 412th Maintenance Squadron here will not only be preparing to don the patch of the 412th Operations Support Squadron soon, but also become part of an existing career field.

As part of an Air Force-wide initiative, which occurred in 2008, to merge the... Read more... 

 

Air Fest 2012: Schedule of Events
Beacon 5/18/12

Gates open at 8 AM and close at 5:30 PM. Free admission and free parking! There will be a mandatory metal detection and bag search. No coolers, pets, bicycles, glass containers, alcoholic beverages, E-Z ups, skateboards, or roller blades. Suggestions for your comfort: Folding chair, blanket and sunscreen.  Read more... 
Command Master Chief Grandin reenlists, reflects
Rocky 5/18/12

Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) and Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) Command Master Chief Charles Grandin reenlisted for possibly the final time of his 27-year career in the United States Navy May 9 during morning colors at China Lake.

Grandin first enlisted in the Navy in... Read more... 
Fort Irwin Soldiers take on Pre-Ranger course
HDW 5/18/12
 
All the way through a Ranger Physical Fitness Test, an obstacle course, and a12- mile ruck march, the instructors of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment's Pre-Ranger Course gave the cadets 110 percent of their attention to help them pass the course May 7-11. The course gave Ranger-qualified officers and noncommissioned officers the... Read more...
Turboprop aircraft challenge Weapons School pilots
Bullseye 5/18/12

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. - A low-flying aircraft will take to the Nevada skies this month, offering Air Force pilots a new threat to reckon with. For the first time ever, the T-6A Texan II will fly as an aggressor aircraft at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.

At Nellis, they are taking on the role of mock opponents for students in the... Read more...  

New fire station to enhance Fort's firefighting mission
Scout 5/18/12

An official ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony Tuesday officially marked the completion of Fort Huachuca's new Fire Station 2. The Directorate of Emergency Services hosted the event.

More than 50 community members attended the ceremony, which took place at the new station on the corner of Squire and Irwin Streets.  Read more... 

 
Det. 12 drives tomorrow's crew chiefs today
Tbolt 5/18/12

Ross Magedoff grew up watching the Navy's Blue Angels and Air Force's Thunderbirds perform at air shows thinking, 'It's amazing what they do; that's something I may want to do one day.'

Little did he know, the now Airman first class's career would take him to the exact jet the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's... Read more... 
Free National Park entrance for military and family
DLN 5/18/12

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. - Members from all branches of the U.S. military gathered at the Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, Va. May 15, as the Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar presented a unique opportunity for service members and their families.

The focus of the secretary's... Read more... 

Obama Welcomes New Stage of Afghan Security Transition
DW 5/18/12
 

WASHINGTON, May 13, 2012 - President Barack Obama welcomed Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's announcement of his government's list of areas intended for the third stage of the transition of security responsibility from NATO's International Security Assistance Force to Afghan security forces.

"I welcome President Karzai's... Read more... 
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In This Issue
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Edwards AFB
March ARB
China Lake NAWS
Fort Irwin NTC
Nellis, Creech and NTTR
Fort Huachuca
Luke AFB
Davis-Monthan AFB
MCAS Yuma

      

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