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In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, Airman 1st Class Jackson Ligon, left, and Senior Airman Jonathan Marinaccio, 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron technicians connect a re-entry system to a spacer on an intercontinental ballistic missile during a Simulated Electronic Launch-Minuteman test Sept. 22, 2020, at a launch facility near Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Mont. The Air Force has temporarily closed two nuclear launch facilities after finding unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen in air samples at a Montana missile base where a striking number of men and women who served have reported cancer diagnoses. (Senior Airman Daniel Brosam/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)

Carcinogens found at Montana nuclear missile sites as reports of hundreds of cancers surface

By Tara Copp - Associated Press

A soldier wears a U.S. Space Force uniform during a ceremony for U.S. Air Force airmen transitioning to U.S. Space Force guardian designations at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., Feb. 12, 2021. Ohio's rich history of aviation innovation makes it an “ideally suited” location for the Air Force's new U.S. Space Command headquarters or Space Force units, a group of the state's congressional delegates told Democratic President Joe Biden in a letter Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Ohio bids for U.S. Space Command before it takes off for Alabama

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

U.S. military forces stand beside an A-10C Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft during an air show at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini) ** FILE **

Sen. Rubio: 1970s-era A-10 attack jets should be sent to Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden arrives at the 2023 United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony at Falcon Stadium, Thursday, June 1, 2023, at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden says U.S. is trusting Air Force grads to confront an ever-changing world

By Jeff Mordock and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, Col. CQ Brown, Jr., pilots an aircraft at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., in 2006. Brown served as Weapons School Commandant from July 2005 to May 2007 at Nellis Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force via AP)

Air Force fighter pilot tapped by Biden to be next Joint Chiefs chairman has history of firsts

By Tara Copp - Associated Press

President Joe Biden shakes hands with U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., after nominating Brown as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden nominates Charles Q. Brown, Air Force chief, to lead Joint Chiefs of Staff

By Jeff Mordock and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force on May 2, 2023, airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri. That U.S. bomb, designed to destroy underground sites at the height of concerns a decade ago over Iran's nuclear program, has briefly reappeared amid new tensions with the Islamic Republic. (U.S. Air Force via AP)

U.S. bomb designed to hit targets like Iran underground nuke sites briefly reappears amid tensions

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

The Lockheed MC-130 Combat Talon II is a special mission aircraft operated by the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), a wing of the Air Education and Training Command, and an AFSOC-gained wing of the Air Force Reserve Command. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse) **FILE**

Air Force general sacked in ongoing misconduct investigation

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sign outside the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Environmental Protection Agency orders military to address oil spill at Travis Air Force Base

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr., speaks during a Senate Armed Services budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden to nominate top Air Force general to lead Joint Chiefs of Staff

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin introduces the B-21 Raider stealth at Northrop Grumman Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, in Palmdale, Calif. America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber made its debut Friday after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China. The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Almost every aspect of the program is classified. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

U.S. to tighten foreign land sales around 8 military bases

By Margaret Stafford, Tara Copp and Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, Airman 1st Class Jackson Ligon, left, and Senior Airman Jonathan Marinaccio, 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron technicians, connect a re-entry system to a spacer on an intercontinental ballistic missile during a Simulated Electronic Launch-Minuteman test Sept. 22, 2020, at a launch facility near Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Mont. The top Air Force officer in charge of the nation's air and ground-launched nuclear missiles has requested an official investigation into the number of officers who are reporting the same type of blood cancer after serving at Malmstrom Air Force Base. (Senior Airman Daniel Brosam/U.S. Air Force via AP)

No cancer risk found at nuclear bases so far, Air Force says

By Tara Copp - Associated Press

The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view made through an airplane window in Washington, Jan. 26, 2020. U.S. officials tell The Associated Press the number of reported sexual assaults across the military inched up by about 1% last year, as a sharp decline in Army numbers offset large increases in the other three services. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Military sex assault reports rise, even as Army numbers fall

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Forensic anthropologists, archeologists and volunteers prepare the remains of an unidentified Revolutionary War soldier killed in the Battle of Camden in 1780 for reburial on Thursday, 14 soldiers were removed from the battlefield, studied and analyzed and will be buried in a ceremony. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

America’s first heroes: Revolutionary War soldiers reburied

By Jeffrey Collins - Associated Press

Marine Wing Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314 personnel refuel and load an F-35C Lightning II with the AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile as VMFA-314 performs simulated offensive and defensive air operations, as well as close air support training missions in support of Jungle Warfare Exercise 22 (JWX 22) across Okinawa, Japan on Feb. 15, 2022. (Capt. Charles Allen/U.S. Navy via AP) ** FILE **

Fiscal restraint is an overlooked key to American air power

By Trent Franks

The sun sets behind 26 crosses placed in a field before a vigil for the victims of the First Baptist Church shooting Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Texas officials confirmed Devin Patrick Kelley as the shooter who killed at least 26 people and wounded about 20 others at the church. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) ** FILE **

Feds to pay $144.5 million for role in Texas church shooting

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Congress and several states are considering regulations on Chinese purchases and investment in private agricultural land. The federal government is concerned that transactions are undermining security but has no legal restrictions. (Associated Press photograph)

Protecting farmland: America pressed to weed China out of U.S. agriculture acreage

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Illustration on Biden's relationship with communist China by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden urged communist China infiltration as vice president

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - Retired Air Force officer Larry Rendall Brock Jr. walks out of Parker County Jail upon release on Jan. 14, 2021, in Weatherford, Texas. Brock, who stormed the U.S. Capitol dressed in combat gear and carried zip-tie handcuffs into the Senate gallery, was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday, March 17, 2023. Brock joined other rioters on the Senate floor only minutes after then-Vice President Mike Pence, senators and their staff evacuated the chamber to escape the mob attacking the building on Jan. 6, 2021. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

Former Air Force officer gets prison term for Capitol attack

By Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on what Republicans say is the politicization of the FBI and Justice Department and attacks on American civil liberties, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

House weaponization panel probes release of Air Force records to political operatives

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times