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Trump's Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite racked up $2.3m air travel bill during eight months in office - including $232,000 trip to Wake Island where NO sailors or Marines are stationed Kenneth Braithwaite, the navy secretary under President  Trump, spent more than $2.3 million on air travel for the approximately eight moths he was in office He took 22 foreign and domestic trips – more than any other senior Pentagon civilian, USA Today found His excessive travel came as most officials stayed grounded due to COVID  Braithwaite's international trips included Norway, Italy, Greece, Japan a...

Unarmed Minuteman III launch scheduled at VAFB VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - An intercontinental unarmed ballistic missile is set to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base early Wednesday morning. The Minuteman III missile is set to be launched between 12:15 a.m. and 6:15 a.m. from north Vandenberg. The launch is an operational test through the Air Force Global Strike Command. These regular test launches are held to verify the effectiveness and readiness of the weapon system and the tests the preparedness of base personnel. You can find more information about this launch and other futur...

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – The 310th Space Wing’s Aerospace Medicine Flight worked with the 302nd Aeromedical Staging Squadron to conduct a mass COVID-19 vaccination event at the Peterson AFB gym, April 11. The event involved the coordination of more than 50 medical personnel from both the 310th Space Wing and the 302nd Airlift Wing to distribute the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during the Unit Training Assembly weekend.  “The biggest reason [for the coordination] was because we were short on medics and skilled crew if we wanted to get all traditional reservists in at once,” said ...

April 21, 2021 Crew-2, the second flight of this particular Crew Dragon, will blast off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:11 a.m. Eastern April 22 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Here’s how to catch the action via NASA TV. From left to right, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A – at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida – during an April 18, 2021, dress rehearsal prior to the Crew-2 mission launch on ...

The Space Force should release its current plan for a reserve force and solicit feedback, says the author of this commentary.