The Air National Guard has decided to consolidate its officer training program conducted over the past 40 years at McGhee-Tyson ANGB, Tenn., with the active duty and Air Force Reserve officer training program at Maxwell AFB, Ala., reports the The Daily Times. The last class of prospective Air Guard officers will graduate June 26, making nearly 15,000 graduates of the I.G. Brown Center. For a time, the Air Force Reserve also commissioned its officer through the Brown Center, but in 2007 shifted to Maxwell. The Brown Center celebrated its 40th anniversary last summer.
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…