An emergency milk run to a local supermarket on Aug. 9 netted MSgt. John San Cartier, the winning lottery ticket for New Mexico’s $93.4 million lottery jackpot. Sergeant San Cartier took that occasion to buy his ticket, which will yield about $36 million after taxes. The 15-year Air Force veteran is (as of Tuesday, at least) a loadmaster instructor with the 58th Training Squadron at Kirtland AFB, N.M.
A combined Navy and Air Force program is seeking to build a smaller version of a ubiquitous air-to-air missile that could give advanced aircraft, such as the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, greater magazine depth in a high-end fight.