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.
A provision in the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill will require the Defense Department to include the military occupational specialty of service members who die by suicide in its annual report on suicide deaths, though it remains to be seen how much data the department will actually disclose.