The youngest airman in her class of 9,100 to graduate from USAF’s Community College of the Air Force is 19-year-old SrA. Sharon Hawley, according to an Air Force news release. Currently assigned to Edwards AFB, Calif. Hawley, who finished the prerequisites for an aviation technology degree in nine months, works in an F-16 avionics test station at Edwards. Her age makes her one of the youngest airmen ever to graduate from CCAF; by contrast, the oldest airman ever to graduate was 59.
The Air Force is launching an effort to develop a new stand-off missile with a range of 1,000 nautical miles, or 1,150 miles, that would eventually be used for both air-to-air and air-to-surface missions.