July 8, 2021 6:52 p.m.
The Pentagon on Thursday pushed back at Republican lawmakers who claimed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued misleading remarks when denying that the department does not have an agenda to teach critical race theory an academic and legal concept that conservatives have appropriated and hijacked as one of its many faux culture wars.
Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby hit back at the right-wing outrage to Politico on Thursday.
“There is no contradiction here. The Secretary’s comments stand,” Kirby told Politico. “That a professor at an academic institution such as the Air Force Academy teaches a given theory as part of an elective course does not in the slightest way signify some larger effort by the Department to teach, espouse or embrace said theory.”
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The Air Force plans to phase out its decades-old JSTARS system in coming years.
Jun 2nd, 2021
An E-8 JSTARS surveillance plane in long-term storage at the Air Force Boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 2019.
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ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AP) The Air Force said it plans to phase out its decadesold JSTARS aircraft and radar system used for battlefield surveillance and replace it in central Georgia with new missions driven by upgraded technology.
The JSTARS mission is shared by both active duty airmen and Georgia Air National Guard members at Robins Air Force Base south of Macon. Since 1991, the system has used large Boeing 707 planes to gather battlefield information from the air for use by U.S. commanders.