ROBINS AFB, Georgia, Oct. 25 -- The U.S. Air Force Reserve Command issued the following news: By Brittany Lauro, 349th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The 349th Air Mobility Wing celebrates its 81st Birthday on Oct. 23, at Travis Air Force Base, California. The wing's predecessor unit the 349th Troop Carrier Group was established on Oct. 23, 1943, at Sedalia Army Airfield, Missouri. In 1969, the wing moved to its current location at Travis AFB. The Air Force   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 24, 2024, entitled "Oregon Job Openings and Labor Turnover - August 2024": * * * Oregon had 114,000 job openings in August 2024, compared to 106,000 openings in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the job openings rate in Oregon was   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 24, 2024, entitled "Washington Job Openings and Labor Turnover - August 2024": * * * Washington had 169,000 job openings in August 2024, compared to 161,000 openings in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the job openings rate in Was  more

MONTEREY, California, Oct. 25 -- The Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security issued the following story: A pair of Center for Homeland Defense and Security Master's Program alums spent more than two years taking on a kind of modern-day equivalent of the Pirates of the Caribbean. U.S. Coast Guard officers Joshua Gilbert (Master's cohort 1801/1802) and Scott Troutman (Master's cohort 1103/1104) were chosen to work on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security joint task   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General's Office of Investigations issued the following investigation report: * * * On September 30, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California sentenced Robert Pooley to 24 months of imprisonment, 36 months of supervised release, and a $200 special assessment. On May 24, 2024, a Federal jury in the same court found Pooley guilty of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft related to tandem skydivi  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: STERLING, Va. A California woman, and Global Entry trusted traveler member, was arrested at Washington Dulles International Airport on Tuesday after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered a cache of dangerous drugs in her baggage. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police officers charged Taylor Alexandra Trautloff, 27, of Los Angeles, on fe  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, Central District of California, granted, in relevant part, the CFTC's motion for default judgment and entered final judgment against , a Chinese citizen, for engaging in a fictitious sales scheme. The court's July 31 and Aug. 20 orders require Bao to pay a $260,140 civil monetary pena  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * In 2023, net firm migration, at 503 firms, was highest in Florida, as 1,000 firms moved into the state and 497 left the state. By contrast, net firm migration was lowest in California, which had 601 firms move into the state and 1,134 firms leave the state, resulting in a net loss of 533 firms. Over the last 30 years, Florida has generally been a   more

LIVERMORE, California, Oct. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has accepted Nightwatch, the first digital product developed and produced by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The acceptance of the digital product -- or software or firmware set to be integrated into the nuclear stockpile -- was celebrated with a recent ceremonial "stamping" event, marking its compl  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- NASA issued the following news release: In fiscal year 2023, NASA investments supported 66,208 jobs in the state of California, generated $18.5 billion in economic output and $1 billion in tax revenue to the state's economy. Overall, NASA generated an estimated $9.5 billion in federal, state, and local taxes throughout the United States. NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California is one of three NASA centers in the state that contributes to this econ  more

CAMP SMITH, Hawaii, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: PORT HUENEME, California Among the flurry of fleet activities in the recent Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in Hawaii was a milestone that Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) spearheaded the first demonstration firing of a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) from a U.S. Navy destroyer. Working under a compressed timeline, NSWC PHD and its par  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: Stanley Kirk Burrell, which is Hammer's birth name, was also in the Navy. He served in Patrol Squadron 47 at Naval Air Station Moffett Field in Mountain View, California. He also deployed to Okinawa, Japan. His squadron flew the P-3A Orion aircraft. The Orion, first introduced in1962, is a four-engine, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft. Hammer attained the rank of petty officer 3rd cla  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: Since the first case of H5N1 was confirmed in cattle, USDA and HHS have led a whole-of-government approach to rapidly respond to the outbreak. In response to the recent spread of H5N1 in lactating dairy cows to California and the resulting human cases and the human cases in Washington resulting from an outbreak among poultry, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Depar  more