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.
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.