USAF has two airmen at Bagram AB, Afghanistan, who sew things that help keep A-10 Warthog pilots safe. Deployed from Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., SSgt. Andrew Topor and SrA. Adam Hatch, both survival equipment technicians, assemble everything thing A-10 drivers need from anti-gravity suits, parachutes, and survival vests to engine covers for their Warthogs.
Amid NATO’s continued push to ramp up air defenses in Eastern Europe, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall swung by seven allied countries to boost relations last week, including those on Russia’s and Ukraine’s doorstep.