Zade is a reporter for Stars and Stripes based in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He has worked in military communities in the U.S. and abroad since 2013. He studied journalism at the University of Missouri and strategic communication at Penn State.
A memorial ceremony this week paid tribute to six Air Force crew members and 29 others killed nearly three decades ago when their plane crashed in Croatia, a disaster that broadly reshaped flight safety practices in the service.
Four-day weekends tied to federal holidays are no longer part of the Air Force’s official calendar for the remainder of the year, according to a memo sent to commanders this week.
