Airmen from the 61st Airlift Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, were flying a mission in support of a quick-reaction force when their Super Hercules came under small-arms fire.
Nearly 60 years ago, dozens of soldiers assembled for a top secret mission to Vietnam. They never made it. Their airplane disappeared between Guam and the Philippines.
A bomber maintenance squadron commander recently lost her job at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, just two days before a mobility wing commander at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., lost his.
Scot Ames Jr., a 24-year-old instructor pilot with the 50th Flying Training Squadron at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, died in the crash. The name of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force student pilot also killed in the crash was not released.