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Travis Air Force Base shoppers whose furry friends have the purr-fect patriotic look can win a share of $3,000 in prizes in the Patriot Pet Just Say “Treat” Photo Contest from the Army & Air Force Exchange Service and Royal Canin.
From May 1 through May 31, eligible Exchange shoppers 18 years and older worldwide— including honorably discharged Veterans and Department of Defense and Coast Guard employees and retirees—can participate in the patriotic-themed pet photo contest. Shoppers can visit ShopMyExchange.com/sweepstakes and submit a photo of their pet adorned in a patriotic costume or posing against a patriotic backdrop for a chance to win.
Two grand-prize winners will each receive a $500 Exchange gift card. Eight runners-up will each receive a $250 Exchange gift card.
“Pets are an important part of our families,” said Travis BX General Manager Cathie Byrns. “This is a fun way to show some love to the four-legged friends who provide so much joy and companionship to service members and military families.”
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Travis Air Force Base will conduct a readiness exercise May 1-12.
Exercises fine-tune and advance airmen’s readiness and ability to execute and sustain rapid global mobility around the world.
The local populous and surrounding communities will hear an increase in air traffic, voice notifications and alarms. Additionally, patrons may experience increased gate entry times during periods throughout the day.
All base exercise notifications heard over the installation’s Giant Voice system will be prefaced with an “Exercise Exercise Exercise” reminder. Sirens and alarms heard from the base are used to simulate a realistic environment in which base personnel can properly train and respond in the event of a real-world incident.
For more information, contact 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs at 707424-2011 or email 60AMWPA@us.af.mil.
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Blinken declined to specifically address the trove of classified
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material that spilled into public view after it was posted on the Discord social media platform, but said intelligence material detailing the military challenges that Ukraine will face, including problems fielding and sustaining troops, “reflected a particular point in time and this is not static.”
Most of the leaked material dated from January, February and March. Officials have charged a member of the
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“Where Ukraine might have been a month ago, two months ago, three months ago, is not where it is now in terms of its ability, for example, to prosecute a counteroffensive and to deal with the ongoing Russian aggression,” Blinken said, speaking at an event marking World Press Freedom Day hosted by Washington Post Live.
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The government of President Volodymyr Zelensky is preparing to launch a long-awaited operation seeking to recapture vast swaths of territory seized by Russian forces after President Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion. Leaders in Kyiv have also vowed to push Russia out of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Putin annexed illegally in 2014 and
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Airmen from the 341st Medical Group and 40th Helicopter Squadron demonstrate search and rescue capabilities April 6, at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. The 40th HS has contributed to a proud rescue history saving over 400 lives since 1973 and logging upwards of 145,000 flying hours conducting search-and-rescue missions.
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The 60th Air Mobility Wing recently hosted Air Force Global Strike Command for a Project Tuskegee, Aviation Inspiration Mentorship (AIM) event to encourage early interest in aviation at Travis, April 28.
More than 400 students from the surrounding schools and universities attended an aviation-focused event with opportunities to learn from airmen and discuss career prospects as well as tour a B-1B Lancer from Ellsworth AFB and a C-5M Super Galaxy, C-17 Globemaster III and KC-10 Extender from Travis AFB.
Project Tuskegee is an initiative to increase opportunities for AFROTC cadets and other underrepresented students within local communities to be exposed to rated and non-rated career opportunities. This initiative partnered with Air Mobility Command and Travis AFB to garner aviation enthusiasm in the local youth population.
“The Tuskegee Airman taught us to persevere and to work together to solve the challenges that our military faces,” said Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Alexander, AFGSC A5/8 Air National Guard Advisor.
The AIM program works hand-in-hand with Project Tuskegee to support Air Force outreach and engagement activities with a mission to inform, influence and inspire the next generation of aviators.
“Project Tuskegee and AIM drives to create inspiration in our youth, and potentially unveils new career pathways in aviation with the ability to make that path achievable,” said Keith Burgess 60th AMW integrated prevention chief. “It opens doors and creates pathways for community youth that may have viewed aviation as an unattainable dream;
this outreach program can ultimately strengthen our nation.”
For this event, Travis was able to reach outside of the typical radius to connect with members who may not necessarily interact with military members. The event introduced aviation and STEM to students of northern California to arm them with knowledge of educational expectations and requirements, and create a head start to become academically qualified to compete for ROTC scholarships and succeed in the program.
In a memorandum from January, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. charged airmen to connect the Air Force with the American public, especially with young people and the influencers who inform their choices.
“Young people aspire to be what they see,” Brown said in the Jan. 26, 2023 dated memo. “When the public meets our amazing airmen, see their exciting mission and understands the value of military service, it can be life changing.”
Solano County community leaders participated in the event alongside leadership assigned to the AFGSC, 60th AMW, 621st CRW, 349th AMW and members from the local Tuskegee Airmen Chapter.
“With young people, seeing is believing,” said Lt. Col. Craig Dorn, AFGSC headquarters squadron commander. “When young people have the opportu nity to see and hear about other potential career paths in life, they will have a better chance at ful filling those opportunities. ”
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(AFNS) — The Air Force Medical Service is expanding its MEDICX initiative across the Air Force to ensure all airmen assigned to medical treatment facilities are adaptable and ready for a dynamic future battlefield.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Harrell, Air Force Medical Readiness Agency commander, signed a memo on April 3 outlining the rollout of MEDIC-X across the Air Force by July 1. MEDIC-X is the Air Force Surgeon General’s initiative to ensure all medical personnel are equipped with the life-sustaining skills needed for a challenging and dynamic future battlefield where resources may be limited.
The rollout of MEDIC-X is the Air Force Medical Service’s response to the demand for multicapable airmen, aligning with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr.’s operational doctrine, which requires equipping airmen with skills that go beyond their duty title.
“Future conflict will never look like wars of the past, and that is why we have to get after building multi-capable, strategically minded airmen today, so they can compete, deter, and win tomorrow,” said Chief Master Sergeant
of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass. “AFDN 1-21 presents, in doctrine, expeditionary and multicapable airmen capable of accomplishing tasks outside of their core Air Force specialty to provide combat support and combat service support to [Agile Combat Employment] force elements.”
With MEDIC-X, every Air Force medic, including those not involved in patient care like administrators or lab technicians, will need to be proficient in 52 skills that will ensure the Air Force’s medical force is ready for the next fight.
“These 52 skills are not normally within a majority of medical group training,” said Lt. Col. Samantha Kelpis, the Air Force Medical Service’s MEDIC-X team lead. “An administrator doesn’t normally do any handson patient care. MEDIC-X trains them on skills they will need in a challenging deployed environment where the priority is not going to be completing administrative tasks, it is going to be saving lives. When they are deployed and resources are limited, they need to know how to perform some level of patient care.”
MEDIC-X’s 52 skills encompass base-level patient care that is easily teachable through hands-on, in-person training to any medical personnel, whether they treat patients regularly or
not. The training includes such skills as assessing pain levels, infection control, taking a patient’s vital signs, assisting with spinal immobilization, patient movement, and respiratory care.
According to Kelpis, every medical airman must participate in the full annual training or demonstrate competency in those skills in a formal evaluation. She also explained that most physicians, nurses, and medical technicians can be granted credit for most of the skills, especially the ones they use in their dayto-day jobs.
“Even though the MEDICX training is primarily focused on those individuals who do not engage in direct patient care on a regular basis, there could be skills a traditional clinician may need a refresher on,” Kelpis said. “For instance, if you are a critical care medical technician who
works with an aeromedical evacuation unit, you would be familiar with most of the MEDIC-X skills already compared to a family medicine medical technician that works in a clinic. Those clinical-focused individuals may not have the working knowledge of
a ventilator or offloading a patient from a fixed wing aircraft depending on their prior work or deployment experience. With that said, those individuals would need to go through the training of those skills they are unfamiliar with.”
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The Defense Health Agency celebrated Medical Laboratory Professionals Week from April 23-29, 2023.
Medical laboratory professionals work at all levels within the U.S. Department of Defense to help identify and diagnose various health threats that may impact our forces.
“Medical laboratory scientists are health care detectives working on the front lines to provide critical information for health care providers,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Patrick Kennedy, chief of DHA’s Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division.
“In garrison, we use state-ofthe-art instrumentation and scientific methods to provide accurate and timely diagnostics to analyze all types of body fluids,” added Kennedy. In addition to
his role at AFHSD, Kennedy performs two additional duties for Air Force as the Air Force Surgeon General Consultant for Laboratory and Biomedical Associate Corps Chief for Laboratory.
Lab professionals serve in various positions throughout the DOD—in military hospitals and clinics’ laboratories to diagnose disease, in research organizations searching for new ways to detect and treat disease, and as policy developers at DOD level,” said U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Warren Conrow, director of the center for laboratory medicine services at DHA.
“We also staff donor centers and transfusion centers to ensure a lifeline of blood products; we partner with our public health partners to provide disease surveillance; we serve as executive officers, commanders, and even as directors,” he
added.
“Lab analysis is critical to 80% of any medical diagnosis, and our ability to test enables leaders to make force health protection decisions (in garrison and deployed),” said Kennedy.
Conrow agreed, “The lab protects the warfighter and our military community by providing the right diagnostic information (accurate and safe lab and pathology results), performed by the right people, using the right testing guidelines, at the right time.”
Future advances for lab professionals include developments in transfusion medicine in a deployed environment to reduce casualties. Lab-supporting trauma surgery with advances in blood banking, such as low tier type O whole blood, has decreased casualty rates significantly in war zones.
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The Air Force is changing the process of how First Term Airmen can retrain to provide additional opportunities for airmen to stay in uniform instead of separating.
Effective June 1, all FTA can retrain into any Air Force Specialty Code they qualify for that is under 90% manned prior to separation, even if their current AFSC is below 90% manned.
Qualified airmen must be within their retaining window and meet medical, Air Force Enlisted Classification Directory standards, Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery score and physical fitness standards to be approved.
“Glad to see us make this change as it relates to retraining opportunities for the force,” said Chief Master Sgt. of the Air
Force JoAnne S. Bass. “Providing these opportunities for our airmen helps us keep talent on the bench. While this particular change impacts First Term Airmen, expect to see more initiatives like this as we evolve our policies and talent management to focus on the force of the future and building the Air Force our nation needs.”
Additionally, the FTA Retaining Selection Board is also no longer required during the retraining application process. This removes the racking-and-stacking retraining application process based on the number of quotas needed for a more streamlined ‘first in, first out’ process. Phase 1 FTA retraining quotas will be open to all FTAs entering their retraining window during Fiscal Year 2024. The Exception to Policy will be reassessed June 1, 2024, unless it is rescinded earlier.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The Kremlin spokesman on Thursday directly accused the United States of ordering what Moscow has alleged was an attempted assassination of President Vladimir Putin with two drones that were sent to attack the Russian president’s official residence. John Kirby, the spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, said Dmitry Peskov “is just lying.”
Ukrainian officials denied any role in the alleged attack on the Kremlin, and some suggested Russia had staged it to create a pretext for escalating its war.
“We know very well that decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks, are made not in Kyiv, but in Washington, and Kyiv does what it is told,” Peskov told reporters Thursday.
Kirby said that it was still not clear to Washington what had happened, but he bluntly rebutted Peskov’s claim. “I can assure you that there was no involvement by
the United States in this, whatever it was,” he said during an appearance on MSNBC. “We had nothing to do with this. Peskov is just lying there, pure and simple.”
Peskov said the denials by the U.S. and Ukrainian officials of their involvement “are absolutely ridiculous.”
He added, “We know that often it is not even Kyiv that determines the targets, but Washington determines them and then brings them to Kyiv so that Kyiv implements them. Whether or not to divide all of this by two is up to them, but Washington should know that we know this clearly.”
Putin was not in the Kremlin at the time of the alleged strike on the Senate Palace, which contains his official residence within the walled compound in the center of Moscow. But Peskov said that Putin was working there Thursday and that protective measures, including air defenses, would be strengthened.
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The Air Force recently released an additional resource targeted to bridge the gap in fundamental education and training for new supervisors prior to assuming the duties of taking care of airmen.
Prepping the Line focuses on preparing front-line leaders the Air Force needs at every level in
accordance with the Major Graded Areas: Executing the Mission, Leading People, Improving the Unit, and Managing Resources.
New supervisors can work with their leadership or trainer to complete the supplemental job qualification standard for supervisory roles, such as progressive motivation and discipline, conducting feedback, writing 1206s, evaluations and much more. This mission-focused resource is also
intended to increase connection to the mission and the trust among supervisor-troop relationships.
Understanding all aspects of being a supervisor, such as knowing the helping agencies, allows front-line supervisors to build connections and take care of their airmen.
“Prepping the Line is about arming airmen with the skills and knowledge to successfully
fill the positions and roles we expect them to assume throughout their career,” said Chief Master Sgt. Joseph Bogdan, enlisted force development division. “It provides airmen with a guide that lets them collaborate with their supervision to ensure they are prepared for their duties, whether as a supervisor, a (noncommissioned officer in charge) or a flight chief.”
Currently, the JQS is optional; however, the Air Force is looking to implement an apprentice period after graduating from Airman Leadership School, where completing the JQS is required before supervising.
The next phase of Prepping
the Line is to identify core managerial competencies, such as manpower, budget, etc. to prepare leaders for noncommissioned officer in charge, section chief and flight chief roles.
“As we release additional job qualification standards for the various positions, we look to integrate the voice of the field,” said Chief Master Sgt. Jalil Samavarchian, enlisted force development division. “Having a live feedback mechanism on the website can help us to continue improving these resources.”
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heavily fortified.
While Ukraine’s military has performed far better against Russia than Western nations had expected, it has recaptured little territory since last year. One leaked U.S. assessment predicted that Ukrainian forces, facing shortfalls in heavy weaponry, ammunition and personnel, would probably make only “modest territorial gains” in its
spring campaign.
Both militaries have sustained massive casualties, but even still, neither side appears inclined to negotiate an end to the war. Moscow earlier Wednesday accused Ukraine’s government of a brazen attempt to assassinate the Russian leader and declared that it “reserves the right to respond.” Officials in Kyiv denied responsibility, suggesting instead that the thwarted attack was carried out by “local resistance forces” and was being exploited by the Kremlin to
justify Russia’s targeting of Ukrainian civilians.
Blinken, noting that Western nations have provided Ukraine huge amounts of weaponry and training, said he was “confident that they will have success in regaining more of their territory.” For Putin, he added, the war had already proven fruitless.
“Russia sought to erase Ukraine from the map, to eliminate its independence, to subsume it into Russia. That has failed,” he said.
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The Biden administration will send 1,500 additional troops to augment security at the southern border, U.S. officials said Tuesday, as the looming end of pandemic-era immigration policies has officials bracing for a surge in illegal crossings.
The Department of Homeland Security said that it requested the 90-day deployment and that Defense Department personnel sent to the border will not interact with migrants. Instead, they will support U.S. Customs and Border Protection by performing “nonlaw enforcement duties” that include monitoring sensors and cameras, as well as “data entry and warehouse support,” according to a DHS statement.
“DoD personnel have never, and will not, perform law enforcement activities or interact with migrants or other individuals in DHS custody,” the statement said. “This support will free up DHS law enforcement personnel to perform their critical law enforcement missions.”
The additional 1,500 activeduty troops will join 2,500 National Guard troops who are already deployed along the U.S. southern border. The figures do not include the Texas National Guard members mobilized for a stateled mission called Operation Lone Star.
Some of the U.S. military forces will begin to arrive as soon as May 10, Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, told reporters. Active-duty Army and Marine Corps units will be deployed, Ryder said.
Ryder did not say which units would be mobilized but said the Pentagon was exploring options to replace them with reservist troops and send the active-duty
troops home.
It is unusual to dispatch active-duty troops on domestic missions. The military’s border mission has largely been carried out by the National Guard, which has broader authorities to work on U.S. soil.
The Pentagon has had some concerns about supplying service members for what has become an annual commitment to DHS, including the impact it has on units available to deploy on combat missions. The upcoming mission “will not affect readiness,” Ryder said.
The mobilization was first reported by Fox News.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre played down the significance of the troop request during Tuesday’s briefing to reporters.
“DOD personnel have been supporting CBP at the border for almost two decades now,” she said. “So this is a common practice.”
Some immigration advocacy groups criticized the use of troops along the border, while other observers saw the deployment as a sign the administration is not prepared for the pandemic restrictions to lift.
“Deploying military personnel suggests a concerning lack of readiness for this transition,” said Andrea Flores, a former Biden aide who is now an immigration adviser to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.).
DHS “had over two years to plan a gradual wind down of Title 42,” Flores wrote on Twitter. “Instead, the situation has escalated into a greater emergency that will, once again, lead to troops in border communities.”
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — In 1986, then-Secretary of Defense
Caspar Weinberger designated April as “Month of the Military Child.” During this month, national, state and local govern ments, organizations, and agencies, along with military-serving communities, make time to celebrate the important role more than 1.6 million military children play in the Armed Forces community.
Although military children experience many unique and exciting experiences, they also often face many challenges as a result of their parents’ service. Some of these challenges can include moving an average of every two to three years, chang ing schools, adjusting to separations dur ing parent deployments and other mis sions, and building new support networks.
Due to these frequent changes, mili tary children can often be faced with cele brating special occasions such as holidays, birthdays, graduations, and other impor tant milestones away from their loved ones. These events not only impact stabil ity but can contribute to feelings of stress, fussiness, sadness, worry and frustration. Other changes that can occur include dif ficulty concentrating in school, withdrawing from others, differences in eating and sleeping patterns, and negative thinking.
In its 2021 Military Family Lifestyle Survey, Blue Star Families, a military family advocacy organization, found that 17 percent of active-duty respondents reported a child or children who were receiving behavioral [mental] health care. An additional 17 percent of respondents said they would like their children to receive behavioral health care, but they currently do not.
Military children commonly experience adjustment disorders in response to changes in peer relationships, ability to communicate openly with a parent/caregiver, and engagement in positive social activities. Difficulty adjusting to life changes can greatly impact a child’s mood, selfesteem, behavior, academic performance and overall adjustment to a stressor.
Behavioral health intervention strategies that can effectively help military children manage stress include providing healthy outlets for emotions; integrating family, school, and social support; and fostering healthy stress management and coping skills.
Army Lt. Col. Virgil Rivera, a boardcertified, licensed clinical social worker with the Defense Centers for Public Health–Aberdeen who specializes in working with children and their families, says it’s important for parents to maintain a healthy and active attachment to their children by spending at least 20 minutes a day with them.
“The time may be spent learning more about their child’s school day, hearing about their friends, or even playing a game
together,” said Rivera.
Rivera recognizes that sometimes parents are unable to dedicate this time daily due to military/work obligations or to other family responsibilities; however, it is important to be mindful that the quality of the time spent together fosters a meaningful parent/child relationship with both short- and long-term benefits.
“If a child knows and feels that their parent is available to them, then their experience may also shape their view on how they approach relationships with others and how they view themselves,” said Rivera. “In some ways, parenting is a leadership role where caring behaviors, words, tone and time are foundational to the growth and development of our next generation.”
Military children are known for their
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Blinken has expressed confidence in Ukraine’s military momentum even as its forces have complained about ammunition and equipment shortages, and advances on the ground have slowed. But he also suggested that the war may not end, as leaders in Kyiv have pledged, with the recovery of every inch of their country.
“Where exactly this settles remains to be seen,” Blinken said. “And Ukraine has to make important decisions about exactly
where it’s going to go, how far it can get, and how it wants to pursue this. But we’re determined to sustain that support.”
Zelensky has expressed dismay about the Discord leak - which also detailed sensitive Ukrainian vulnerabilities in areas including air defense - and his irritation about the lack of follow-up from U.S. officials.
Blinken said he had spoken with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba about the leaks after the material was made public. In that conversation, Blinken said, he communicated that the United States “very much regretted the unauthorized disclosure of these documents”
and had arrested the person allegedly responsible.
Blinken said Ukraine and other countries benefit from the “extraordinary information” the U.S. intelligence agencies generate, with much of Kyiv’s signals intelligence powered by America’s far-reaching electronic surveillance programs. He said foreign partners have not expressed anger to him about the leaks.
Blinken praised last week’s phone call between Zelensky and Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying it was “vitally important that China and other countries that have been seeking to advance peace hear from the victim, not just the aggressor.”
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Earlier this year, Xi introduced a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, but had not spoken to Zelensky since the start of the conflict while having calls and a meeting with Putin. U.S. officials have cautioned China, Russia’s most powerful foreign friend, against providing weapons to Moscow.
Blinken said that it was possible China could play a productive role in bringing the war to an end and that Xi’s peace plan included “positive” elements. But he said it wasn’t clear whether the Chinese leader had yet accepted that Ukraine is the victim and Russia is the aggressor in the conflict.
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Fellowship Lunch (12:30 pm)
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TALLADEGA, Ala. — Engines roared and the crowd cheered as more than 170,000 spectators helped celebrate 75 years of airpower and horsepower at NASCAR’s superspeedway here Sunday.
“This is a special day not only for the 70,000-plus citizen airmen of the Air Force Reserve, but also for NASCAR, as we’re both celebrating our 75th anniversary this year,” said Lt. Gen. John Healy, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command. “The men and women of NASCAR have a great deal in common with the United States Air Force and the Air Force Reserve. They both celebrate dedication and they’re both looking for perseverance and most importantly, patriotism.”
The Air Force Reserve was officially established on April 14, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. NASCAR got its start on December 14, 1947, when 35 influential leaders within the burgeoning sport met to consolidate and coordinate stock car racing under a single and unified banner.
Prior to the start of Sunday’s race, more than a dozen delayed entry program recruits stood on the main stage in front of the large, energized crowed to pledge their oath of enlistment, which was administered by Healy.
“As we celebrate 75 years of heritage between the two of us, I want to give a shout-out to all those who have served in uniform before us and to those who are serving today, inspiring young men and women like these to raise their right hand and take the oath,” Healy said. “The oath of enlistment is significant. It’s a promise made to the country that you will defend the Constitution of the United States and the freedoms that we enjoy every day.”
Not only was this a significant day for the young men and women becoming airmen, race fans at the track and millions of viewers at home got the opportunity to see a specialized Air Force Thunderbird paint scheme on the #43 car driven by Erik Jones, driver of the Air Force-sponsored Legacy Motor Club team.
“It’s been an honor to represent the U.S. Air Force the last few years,” Jones said before the race. “My grandfather served, so I have a personal connection to them. To have Lt. Gen. Healy at the track with us this weekend is really special. We were so close to a win at Talladega in the fall, I would really like a chance to be there at the end and score a win for them to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Air Force Reserve.”
Jones placed sixth in the race that was eventually won by Kyle Busch.
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Peskov was also asked why he had not mentioned the alleged attack during his briefing with reporters the day before, even though it had already occurred. He cited an “operational assessment” as the reason for issuing a separate statement.
Moscow’s accusation against the United States came several hours after Russia launched a wave of self-destructing drones against Kyiv and the southern port city of Odessa overnight, with explosions ringing out in the two cities.
Air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv and across Ukraine at about 2:30 a.m. - the third attack on the capital in four days, Serhiy Popko, head of the city military administration, said in a post on Telegram.
Ukraine’s air force said that of 24 drones launched by Russia at Ukraine, 18 were shot down.
Wednesday’s alleged attack on the Kremlin reportedly took place in the early hours of the morning and resulted in two drones being shot down without any casualties, Russian officials said.
Video footage showed one of the drones exploding and hitting the dome of the Senate Palace and another exploding just above the dome.
Russian officials called the assault “a planned terrorist attack” and said they reserved the right to respond “when and where” they saw fit.
During a broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday, Kirby said that Washington was not involved. Ukrainian officials often complain that the United States has limited their ability to strike targets inside Russia by not providing more longer-range weapons.
“We certainly don’t dictate to them the terms by which they defend themselves, or the operations they conduct,” Kirby said.
