Air Force personnel officials are encouraging Active Duty airmen who are eligible to re-enlist, extend their current enlistment, retire, or separate in March to complete these actions by Feb. 15 to avoid processing delays and military pay issues. That’s because the Air Force is upgrading and transferring MilPDS, the Military Personnel Data System, to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Defense Enterprise Computing Center in March. This upgrade is scheduled to take about 23 days to complete, during which time MilPDS will not be available to airmen, states a Jan. 15 Air Force Personnel Center release. “Airmen who accomplish their re-enlistment or enlistment extension by Feb. 15 should not experience interruptions in their pay because their servicing [military personnel sections] can process all appropriate transactions prior to the MilPDS upgrade,” said Michael McLaughlin, AFPC’s re-enlistments branch chief. (Randolph report by TSgt. Steve Grever) (See also Jan. 14 Randolph report by Grever.)
KC-46’s Refueling Boom Damaged While Refueling F-22s
July 8, 2025
A U.S. Air Force KC-46 tanker suffered damage to its boom while refueling F-22 Raptors off the coast of Virginia on July 8, Air & Space Forces Magazine has confirmed, with reported radio communication from the crew indicating the boom “detached.”