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 last remaining T-1 Jayhawk at JBSA-Randolph, Texas, took its final flight to the "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on July 15. The 99th Flying Training Squadron will train pilots using T-6 and simulator until it gets T-7 Red Hawk in fiscal 2026.