An Air Force aircraft maintenance officer is one of USAF’s in-lieu-of-a-soldier airmen who are working in Southwest Asia outside his expertise—way out. First Lt. Jacob Sullivan, with the 319th Maintenance Group at Grand Forks, N.D., is running an Army Tactical Operations Center at a forward operating base in Afghanistan, reports SrA. Paul Croxon. Sullivan supervises 17 airmen who provide capabilities ranging from communications to personnel to medical care and intelligence. On at least one occasion, Sullivan has had to man the machine gun in a Humvee to help fight off enemy forces.
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.
