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 Pentagon has concluded a new agreement to buy laser-guidance kits that turn rockets into drone-killing weapons. BAE Systems and the Defense Department announced a framework deal of up to seven years for 25,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System guidance kits annually for the U.S. military.