The September 2014 issue of Wingman Magazine is now available online. It will hit your mailbox in print form in the coming days, bundled with Air Force Magazine’s September issue. Click here to access Wingman’s digital edition. The issue’s cover piece tells the story of Ken Pridgeon and his Portrait of a Warrior Memorial Art Gallery in Baytown, Texas. A former commercial sign painter, Pridgeon uses art to honor Texas’ sons and daughters lost in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Wingman is the companion publication to Air Force Magazine, AFA’s flagship journal. The next issue of Wingman will appear in January 2015.
The Air Force displayed all the firepower it has amassed on Okinawa in an unusually diverse show of force this week. IIn a May 6 “Elephant Walk,” Kadena Air Base showcased 24 F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters, eight F-15E Strike Eagles; two U.S. Army Patriot anti-missile batteries near the runway; and…