Using the Internet to help airmen lose weight was the subject of a collaborative study by the Air Force and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. According to USA Today, results of the study were presented during at a conference in Canada. USAF enlisted 452 personnel—ranging in rank and weight, some 30 pounds over their healthy weight—for the six-month test. Some of the personnel deployed overseas during the test, but results showed that those who logged in every day to the program’s interactive Web site lost about 12 pounds. Those in a control group—on their own to follow a standard weight loss plan—gained about a pound.
Members of the House Armed Services Committee say the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile program has been set back three months due to the ongoing government shutdown. The comment is noteworthy because the JATM's status has been kept tightly under wraps.
