The U.S. Air Force has modified its plans to relocate the 492nd Special Operations Wing to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, the service announced Friday. The 492nd, previously a training wing supporting Air Force Special Operations Command, is currently in the process of transitioning into a new role as a power projection wing, which…
‘Scene straight out of The Mummy’: Arizona massive dust storm sweeps through metro Phoenix (Sorce: X/@ThePatriotOasis) A massive wall of dust swept across metro Phoenix, Arizona plunged the city into near-darkness, forced power cuts and halted flights at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, on Monday. The storm — a haboob, triggered by collapsing thunderstorms…
Four people were killed when a medical transport plane they were onboard crashed while attempting to land at Chinle Municipal Airport in Arizona’s Navajo Nation, authorities confirmed.The twin-propeller Beechcraft 300 went down on Tuesday during its landing approach in the eastern region of the state, according to both local police and the Federal Aviation Administration…
NOGALES, Ariz. — Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community. The man lowers himself toward U.S. soil between coils of concertina wire. Shouts ring out, an alert is…
NOGALES, Ariz. — Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community. The man lowers himself toward U.S. soil between coils of concertina wire. Shouts ring out, an alert is…
The Pentagon is seeking to reallocate $200 million in funding for barriers to seal off areas surrounding Arizona’s Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, long used as a narcotics trafficking corridor. The approval request to Congress specifies that four 30-feet-tall permanent border barriers with pedestrian gates will be built at $50 million each in areas…
The Pentagon is seeking to reallocate $200 million in funding for barriers to seal off areas surrounding Arizona’s Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, long used as a narcotics trafficking corridor. The approval request to Congress specifies that four 30-feet-tall permanent border barriers with pedestrian gates will be built at $50 million each in areas…
COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) — Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees. The Army has posted thousands of the warnings in New Mexico…
COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) — Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees. The Army has posted thousands of the warnings in New Mexico…
