Boeing recently produced the 250,000th Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kit, announced the company. JDAM kit production began in 1998 at the company’s facility in St. Charles, Mo.; currently, Boeing builds more than 40 kits each day, according to the company’s Aug. 20 release. “It’s been an honor to produce JDAM for the US Air Force, US Navy, and America’s allies these past 15 years,” said Debbie Rub, Boeing’s global strike general manager. The JDAM kits convert unguided 500-pound, 1,000-pound, and 2000-pound gravity bombs into near-precision weapons. The US military has used these munitions extensively in combat in places like Afghanistan. “The JDAM remains a valuable asset to warfighters around the world,” said Maj. Gen. Scott Jansson, the Air Force’s program executive officer for weapons. (See also The JDAM Revolution from Air Force Magazine’s archives.)
The Department of the Air Force is limiting medical shaving profiles to a maximum of six months, down from the previous limit of five years, and will soon require Airmen and Guardians with profiles issued in the last 10 months to be reevaluated as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s…
