For the first time in 38 years, there are currently no B-1 bombers on Ellsworth Air Force Base and that’s because of the runway reconstruction taking place in anticipation of the B-21 bombers.

Though it put up a fight, the gator — dubbed "our newest toothy Airman" — was successfully wrangled off the tarmac at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at ...