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.
Air Force major commands have begun rolling out family day calendars for the rest of the year, after the service ended its blanket schedule of an extra day off tacked on to a federal holiday.
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.