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 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.