Winning the 2007 Commander in Chief’s Annual Award for Installation Excellence within the Air Force is Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. The home of the 366th Fighter Wing Gunfighters is one of five DOD installations to receive the award, which evaluates outstanding and innovative approaches toward facility maintenance and operations. A base release notes that the 366th rolled out several initiatives for a six-person inspection team, including its $60 million Singapore Air Force facility beddown plan and installation of a $1.3 million aircraft hangar high-expansion foam system to increase aircraft protection.
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.