Airmen from Air Force Special Operations Command’s 17th Special Operations Squadron who returned recently from a Southwest Asia rotation took time to visit six classes of first, second, and third graders on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The airmen, who are based at Kadena AB, Japan, wanted to thank the students for writing and sending cards to them during their first deployment to SWA. (Read more here.)
Members of the House Armed Services Committee say the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile program has been set back three months due to the ongoing government shutdown. The comment is noteworthy because the JATM's status has been kept tightly under wraps.

