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March 28, 2019

Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., will be the first operational home of the B-21 Raider bomber and its training unit when they are ready in “the mid-2020s,” the Air Force announced in a news release. Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., and Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, will eventually receive B-21s, too….
The Air Force is considering Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., as the new home of the F-22 Raptor training unit, Military Times reported. The unit was based at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., and is now temporarily housed at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla….
The state of New Jersey is suing five chemical companies to help with PFAS contamination cleanup. “They decided to put profit above the safety of New Jersey’s residents, and we won’t stand for it,” Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said at a news conference, according to Philly.com. “We’re holding polluters accountable for decades of misconduct.”
 
Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Peter Thompson

March 28, 2019

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