News of the Force: Tuesday, November
7, 2017 - Page 2
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U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force failed to report
the accused Texas church shooter's domestic violence conviction to the FBI as
required by Pentagon rules, a move that allowed him to legally buy his
guns.
After several delays, Raytheon has
delivered part of the Operational Control System (OCX) to the U.S. Air
Force.
A member of the Saipan Southern High
School Class of 2012 is now a senior airman with the U.S. Air Force at Lackland
Air Force Base, Texas.
A former U.S. Air Force researcher was
wrongfully discharged, discriminated against and issued a threat that she "would
be treated like Edward Snowden," according to a federal lawsuit she filed in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
New and evolving U.S. Air Force
missions are making mission success more dependent than in the past on
installations in the continental United States.
U.S. Air Force researchers are kicking
off a program to develop new trusted computing microelectronics technologies to
enable broader use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic components in
military systems.
U.S. Air Force researchers are asking
for industry's help in developing seamless, adaptive, and self-healing airborne
networks to enable manned and unmanned aircraft to connect and disseminate
important information.
U.S. Air Force electronic warfare (EW)
experts needed high-voltage power supplies for AN/ALQ-131 electronic
countermeasures (ECM) pods aboard F-16 and A-10 combat aircraft, and they found
their solution from the Crane Aerospace & Electronics' Keltec segment in
Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
The 308th Rescue Squadron, at Patrick
Air Force Base, Fla., welcomed their new commander during a change of command
ceremony on Nov. 4th.
Hurricane relief flights out of Wright
Patterson AFB, Ohio, during 2017 have surpassed the numbers flown for Hurricane
Katrina.
Cascade Township, Mich., has appointed
Adam Magers as its new fire chief. Magers also serves as a technical sergeant
and assistant chief of operations for the Michigan Air National Guard's 110th
Attack Wing.
EAA pilots, along with members of the
Civil Air Patrol, have conducted a ground school for each group of children who
attended the event in Dothan, Ala.
On Sunday, the Civil Air Patrol's 95th
Composite Squadron, in Texarkana, Ark., participated in the #22Standing campaign
which hopes to end veterans' suicides.
And Jerry Wyatt Morgan, Sr., 77, of
Dayton, Tenn., passed away at his home on Saturday, Nov. 4th. Jerry lived all of
his life in Dayton except for the years he served country with the U.S. Army.
Jerry retired as a first sergeant after serving for twenty years. He served
tours in Germany and Vietnam. He was a board member of Rhea of Sunshine, a
member of American Legion Post 100, a former Rhea County Commissioner, a member
of the Civil Air Patrol, and was an instructor with the Army ROTC. Jerry had
also been employed for 13 years as a security officer for the Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA).
U.S. Coast Guard
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating
a close call on Oregon's Willamette River between a Portland Spirit cruise ship
and several teen rowers.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a man
after his vessel began taking on water yesterday off the coast of San Onofre
State Beach, Calif.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a
66-year-old woman who needed medical care from the Carnival cruise ship
Sensation, off the coast of Key West, Fla.
A U.S. Coast Guard Station Brant
Point, Mass., crew has rescued two missing kite surfers and responded to a
sailboat that lost power and ran aground.
As the weather gets colder the U.S.
Coast Guard is warning boaters of the dangers of the Great Lakes.
The U.S. Government yesterday
announced that it would offer a second retired U.S. Coast Guard
cutter to the Sri Lankan Navy.
The Coast Guard is searching for
possible missing people after a boat caught fire and sank on Monday afternoon
about 3 miles off Freeport, Texas.
And the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary's
Flotilla 1-7 will give decals to boats that pass the free boating safety check
from 8-11 a.m., PST, on Nov. 11th at the Shoreline Boat Ramp in Santa Rosa
County, Calif.
The parting shots
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross
is doing business with a close relative of Russian President Vladimir Putin and
failed to disclose their relationship while being confirmed for his Cabinet
spot, documents show.
In Russia, a Siberian tiger pinned the
handler who was bringing it food, biting and clawing at her. The woman was only
saved when quick-thinking onlookers shouted and threw stones at the beast until
it backed off.
Two former New York City police
detectives, Edward Martins and Richard Hall, quit the force on Monday after they
were charged with raping a teenage prisoner.
A Russian media outlet has accused
Google News of what it's calling "political censorship."
A Canadian County, Okla., deputy
sheriff is off the force after getting arrested on Friday night in Piedmont,
allegedly while driving his patrol car drunk.
A Los Angeles Police Department
captain is accusing the LAPD of "twisting" the city's crime statistics to make
the city seem safer.
And we've all been in need of an
emergency pizza delivery before, but one pizza fan was so overcome with hunger
they thought it could constitute an emergency and called 911 to complain that
the toppings on his pizza were wrong.
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