The Alabama Air National Guard is one step closer to getting a new operations and training facility for the 187th Fighter Wing at Dannelly Field, Ala., reports the Montgomery Advertiser. Officials broke ground on a new $10.9 million facility that will replace the wing’s current 50-year-old headquarters and put several functions under one roof. According to the newspaper, the unit has doubled in size since it moved from Birmingham in the 1950s.
Active-Duty Airmen only have a few days left to submit an official waist-to-height ratio into the Air Force’s new online application. But the service clarified July 23 that this first body composition measurement is not meant to be scored as part of the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA