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.
Trainees in Basic Military Training and technical school no longer have the option to try alternate PT drills if they fail an initial assessment, according to a policy change the Air Force made in April. The move is part of a larger shift out of the classroom and into hands-on,…