Air Force Special Operations Command has created a Battlefield Airman Clinic, which it expects to “better serve the unique physical needs” of USAF’s ground warriors as they go through advanced skills training. The new clinic is primarily the work of the medical staff of the 720th Special Tactics Group at Hurlburt Field, Fla. “Our special operators and TACP [tactical air control party] students have different needs and different injuries that require different focus and perspective,” said Maj. Gen. Don Wurster, AFSOC vice commander, at the official ribbon cutting.
A new Navy missile could fill a long-range air-to-air need for the U.S. Air Force’s fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-generation fighters. The Navy’s portfolio acquisition executive for munitions posted information on the AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile online on Aug. 22, the same day it unveiled the project at the service’s…