: According to a Sept. 18 report by KRQE-TV in Albuquerque, N.M., the agreement New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announced Sept. 17 between the Air Force and Air National Guard that would make the New Mexico Air Guard’s 150th Fighter Wing an associate of the active duty 58th Special Operations Wing when the 150th FW loses its F-16 fighters next year is not final—it rests on a “handshake,” per Richardson. State officials have been working to find a mission since the Air Force issued its 2010 fighter cut list this spring, leaving the 150th out in the cold. Per KRQE, Richardson said such handshake agreements are “usually honored.” A Pentagon spokesman told the news station that details of the agreement are “predecisional.”
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.