Police in Florissant, Mo., arrested a 17-year-old early Sunday who they say tried to set fire to a historic F-101 “Voodoo”, KMOV in St. Louis reported. Police were responding to the Florissant civic center for a report of a fire when they discovered someone had tossed beer bottles filled with flammable liquid onto the jet, according to KMOV. The F-101 was on display there. Police found the 17-year-old behind a tree and arrested him, and reportedly were looking for other suspects. The F-101 was the world’s first supersonic photo-reconnaissance aircraft, according to the National Museum of the Air Force, and…
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The husband of an Air Force lieutenant colonel who became a stay-at-home dad a decade ago to care for the couple’s disabled daughter was named Military Spouse of the Year by Military Spouse magazine during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. this week. Jeremy Hilton, an Air Force Academy graduate and former Navy officer,was the first husband to win the award. He was nominated by wife Renae, who is stationed at Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility, Md. After separating from the Navy to care for daughter Kate, who was born with a condition called hydrocephalus that required near round-the-clock care,…
An electric guitar built in honor of eight airmen and a civilian contractor killed one year ago by an Afghan turncoat debuted at the Dallas International Guitar Festival over the weekend. Guitar maker John Guilford spent two months crafting the custom instrument after he was approached by Maj. Henry Cecil and Lillian Axe, a hard rock band from New Orleans. Cecil worked for a year as an air advisor in Afghanistan and served with three of the nine who died when an Afghan colonel turned his gun on coalition forces inside Kabul International Airport April 27, 2011. Cecil is also…
On April 26, nine teams of four will begin a trek from the World Trade Center site to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., in remembrance of the nine men and women killed in the mass shooting at Kabul International Airport last April. Each team will carry a brick with the name of one of the fallen, which will be placed in a memorial now underway at the base, said Col. Olaf Holm, the Air Advisor Academy commandant who is spearheading the event. The teams are set to arrive April 27, the one-year anniversary of the deadliest attack by an Afghan serviceman…
Jeremy Hilton left his burgeoning Navy career in 2002 to become a stay-at-home dad to daughter Kate. Born with a condition called hydrocephalus that left her brain dangerously swollen, Kate required near round-the-clock care. His wife, Renae, was in the Air Force and less likely to be deployed. Hilton’s devotion to Kate – and the advocacy work that grew out of it – has earned him the title of Air Force Spouse of the Year. Now Hilton is one of six finalists for Military Spouse of the Year, an annual honor bestowed by Military Spouse magazine. He’s up against Army,…
