A transgender airman and his financée, a transgender soldier, will attend Wednesday’s LGBT Pride Month reception. Both Senior Airman Logan Ireland and Army Cpl. Laila Villanueva were the subject of the recent documentary “Transgender, at War and in Love,” directed and produced by Fiona Dawson. The Air Force has been supportive of Ireland’s decision to serve as an openly transgender airman. He will attend Wednesday’s event in a male dress blue uniform. “Being invited to the White House as an actively serving transgender airman is one of the most humbling experiences of my life so far,” Ireland said in a…
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Two legends met for the first time last week, when one of the two surviving Doolittle Raiders was introduced to a former Chinese general officer, who flew with the 14th Air Force, heir to the famous Flying Tigers. Lyushun Shen, Taiwan’s top diplomat in the U.S., held a May 19 luncheon with retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard Cole, the co-pilot for then Army Lt. Col. James “Jimmy” Doolittle, and former Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of China Air Force Patrick Chen. In 1940, Chen was selected by retired Army Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault to go through flight training in…
With a combined 31,000 hours of searches to their credit, three military working dogs retired May 1 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Sam, Guero and Besy served approximately seven years each under the care of their handlers at the 11th Security Support Squadron, with the exception of Besy, whose career started at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C. “With a sense of smell 20 times more powerful than a human’s, MWDs are a vital asset to Air Force operations and are considered essential for detection of explosives, narcotics and can be used as attack dogs when necessary,” Tech. Sgt.…
