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September 19, 2021

 

Navy training jet crashes in Texas, injuring both pilots A T-45C Goshawk jet crashed Sunday morning in Lake Worth, Texas. The jet’s two pilots — an instructor and a naval student — ejected from the aircraft. Three homes were damaged. READ MORE

Thousands of Afghans at US bases in Europe receive measles and chickenpox vaccines Evacuees are receiving a shot for the chickenpox and another shot for measles, mumps and rubella at the request of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Air Force said. READ MORE

North Dakota National Guard resumes COVID-19 duty The Guard announced Friday that about 50 of its members are assisting the state Health Department with contact tracing and about 15 others are helping at the state laboratory in Bismarck. The group is expected to remain on active duty until the end of the year. READ MORE   Australia says France knew it had ‘deep and grave concerns’ about its submarines before US deal Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Sunday it had “deep and grave” concerns about the diesel-powered submarines it planned to buy from France — and that Paris knew this well before Canberra abruptly canceled that deal in favor of sharing nuclear submarine technology with the United States and Britain. READ MORE   Colorado man working to get USS Arizona unknowns identified Congressman is also asking that the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency allow assistance from the private sector to identify the dead. READ MORE

Mourners in California honor 3 Marines killed in Afghanistan The Marines were among 13 U.S. troops killed in a horrific suicide bombing at Afghanistan's Kabul airport, which also claimed the lives of more than 160 Afghans, on Aug. 26. READ MORE   Diving after a 50-year-old mystery: Was helicopter wreckage found off San Diego the famed Helo 66? Known informally as Helo 66, for the number painted on its side, the Sea King crashed west of Coronado during a nighttime training mission on June 4, 1975. READ MORE   Taliban-run Kabul municipality tells female workers to stay home Witnesses, meanwhile, said an explosion targeted a Taliban vehicle in the eastern provincial city of Jalalabad, and hospital officials said five people were killed in the second such deadly blast in as many days in the Islamic State stronghold. READ MORE   Report: Iran appoints new air force commander Iran's top leader has appointed a pilot of Russian fighter jets to command the nation's air force, state television reported Sunday. It said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's choice is Air Force Brig. Gen. Hamid Vahedi. READ MORE   USAF spent $549M on planes for Afghan Air Force that were sold for scrap The U.S. Air Force spent $549 million on aircraft for the Afghan Air Force, most of which were junked a few years later at a scrap value of $40,257 — a project that involved officials at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, according to a watchdog report. READ MORE   US closes part of Texas border, begins flying Haitians home About a dozen Texas Department of Public Safety vehicles lined up near the bridge and river where Haitians have been crossing from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, for almost three weeks. READ MORE

 

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