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 ramped up operations and maintenance spending to keep its F-35A fighters flying over the past six years, but readiness continues to lag behind goals, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.