News of the Force: Thursday, November 2, 2017 - Page 2

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News of the Force: Thursday, November 2, 2017 - Page 2

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U.S. Air Force

    

    After being deployed in Afghanistan for the last seven months, a U.S. Air Force doctor returned home to Sacramento, Calif., last week and met his newborn son for the first time.

    Air Force officials have announced the recipients of the 2017 General Larry O. Spencer Innovation Award.

    The U.S. Air Force may have conducted a drill targeting North Korea involving B-52 bombers last month.

    The U.S. Air Force is trying collect samples of ethnic Russian DNA. If history is a guide, the purposes of this new U.S. program are highly nefarious.

    The 53rd Wing's 513th Electronic Warfare Squadron at Eglin AFB, Fla., was awarded the Outstanding Scientist/Engineer Team Award.

    Various Air Force aircraft are scheduled to perform aerial flyovers at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., this weekend.

    The Illinois Air National Guard is getting a new chief of staff. Col. William Robertson has commanded the 182nd Airlift Wing in Bartonville.

    The U.S. Air Force has made Gowen Field Air National Guard Base, Idaho, that shares the Boise Airport's two runways, a finalist for a wing of F-35s.

    First Lt. Debbie Gorby, of the Grand Rapids, Mich., Civil Air Patrol squadron, says her group has already received a gift from the X-Rite Corp. that will allow the squadron to place wreaths in December on every veteran's grave at the Grand Rapids Veterans Cemetery.

    And the Knights of Columbus of Marshall and the Marshall Rotary Club invite all veterans to the seventh annual Veterans Day breakfast on Friday morning, Nov. 10th, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Marshall, Mo. The breakfast is free and will honor those who have served and those currently serving America. Serving will be from 7:15-8:45 a.m., with doors opening at 7 a.m. The program following breakfast will be a presentation of the colors by the Saline County Civil Air Patrol Cadet Color Guard. There will be a recognition of veterans and service organizations. A program of music will be presented by Marshall second graders who will present several patriotic musical songs and will traditionally greet all the veterans present. All veterans are invited to attend.

 

U.S. Public Health Service

    

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert due to concerns that some poultry products may have Listeria contamination.

 

VA news

    

    Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. David Shulkin delivered the 2017 Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Distinguished Lecture at the Harvard Law School today.

    This was the fourth annual event in the DAV's Distinguished Speaker Series, which provides a forum for national leaders to address the critical issues facing our nation's disabled veterans and to engage in conversation with the local community.

    The series is co-hosted by the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Center of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Law School Armed Forces Association.

 

The parting shots

    A California couple and their two daughters who had been missing since Sunday when Brazilian pirates attacked their boat in the Amazon River Delta area have been found alive.

    It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's Justin Trudeau. Canada's prime minister is disguised as Clark Kent as his Halloween alter ego for 2017.

    After the summer of Rachel Maddow, Fox's Sean Hannity has ascended to the top of the cable news ratings.

    TV shows being partially filmed in the Los Angeles area include the History channel's Six, USA's Shooter, TNT's The Last Ship and the long-running CBS shows NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles.

    A man killed in a New Zealand police high-speed pursuit had previously applied to join the police force.

    An industrious father and Star Wars fan in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, fulfilled a longtime dream this Halloween by designing an epic R2-D2 costume for his daughter.

    And you can't make this stuff up. First Lady Melania Trump gifted schools in all 50 states a set of Dr. Seuss books for students, in honor of National Read a Book Day. However, Liz Phipps Soeiro, a librarian in Cambridge, Mass., did not accept the gesture. Her reason? Dr. Seuss books are nothing but "racist propaganda."

 

 

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