If the law regarding homosexuals serving in the military is changed, “there is no doubt in my mind the Air Force will implement it professionally,” Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said Wednesday afternoon at the Four-Star Forum during AFA’s Air & Space Conference in Washington, D.C. The Air Force will figure out rules governing everything from billeting to “PDAs” [personal displays of affection], but Schwartz said there is “one bottom line: The standards of conduct do not change.”
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.