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By Master Sgt. Mike Smith, I.G. Brown Training and Education Center / Published May 11, 2021 Scrapbooks of U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. I.G. Brown, the first Director of the Air National Guard, maintained from 1962 to 1974, contain select correspondence, speeches, and images. Stored at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center in East Tennessee, they hold hundreds of documents. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith) Air Force Brig. Gen. I.G. Brown presents the NCO academy diploma to Tech. Sgt. G.M. Matsuguma, Class 69-D, from Hawaii during the graduation ce...

Advertisement Alongside the United States, Russia has the world’s longest and most distinguished history of military and civilian activity in space. Russia recognized the importance of space to military operations during the Soviet period, and after the interregnum of the 1990s resumed diligent work on increasing its space capabilities.  The Soviet space program rose out of World War 2 to boast many of the most important achievements of the space era, including the launch of the first ICBM, the placement of the first artificial satellite in space, and the first successful human spaceflight...

Drone Downed: How Iran Proved the U.S. Military Is Not Invincible The aircraft in question was a large U.S. Navy drone called the RQ-4N Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Drone (BAMS-D) with wings spanning 35 meters across—as wide as a 737 airliner. Here's What You Need to Remember: Essentially, the destruction of drones engaged in surveillance activities has not yet been treated as a casus belli. Such murky precedents appear to have motivated Tehran to overtly destroy a valuable U.S. military asset conducting a likely routine surveillance mission over international airspace. Early in the mor...