Barbara High
Tribune Staff Writer
KEYSER - The Patriots Pack will be arriving in Keyser Sunday, May 23, to honor city resident Clifton Brooks Sr. as one of the last remaining Tuskegee Airmen alive today.
Brooks, now 99, was part of the Tuskegee Airmen - the African-American military pilots and airmen who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps - during World War II. They formed the 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group and the 477th Bombardment Group.
He will be honored by the group with a parade and an event where he will be awarded a citation and plaque.
According to John Brostrom, who along with Mike Stramaglio created the Patriots Pack, the riders will be leaving North Ridgeville, Ohio, and make the journey to Keyser to honor Mr. Brooks for being the hero that he is.
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In his first commencement address since being sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Defense in January, retired four-star General Lloyd James Austin III challenged graduates of Florida A&M University Saturday to start now on their journey in helping to shape the nation’s future.
Austin, originally scheduled to address graduates of the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities in person, instead delivered his remarks livestreamed from the Pentagon, where his Senate confirmation in January places him as the country’s first African American to serve as Secretary of Defense.
It marks another milestone for Austin, who grew up in nearby Thomasville, Georgia, and later graduated from West Point before embarking on a decorated 41-year career in the military.
massive solar storm. This has focused military minds on alternatives.
A soldier checks a map during NATO’s Trident Juncture exercise in October 2018. Participants accused the Russian government of GPS jamming during the exercise. Leon NealGetty Images
The Navy’s Automated Celestial Navigation System would replace manual shipboard measurements with something more accurate, while Special Operations Command experts are developing a handheld device for commandos. Both pieces of tech are aiming for GPS-level precision.
“The best accuracy for celestial navigation with certainty is within a couple of meters,” says Benjamin Lane of the Advanced Position, Navigation & Timing Instrumentation unit at Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “In practice, we are within a factor of a few of that.”
Air Force Recruiting Service and their partners at Richard Petty Motorsports and Ed Carpenter Racing, introduced their newest paint scheme April 20, which pays homage to the original trailblazers, the Tuskegee Airmen. ,