Lt. Gen. Richard Newton III, Air Force personnel chief, the service’s physical training uniform (PTU) now is considered an official uniform with proscribed wear procedures contained in a revised Air Force Instruction 36-2903. Airmen will have to wear the PTU by the book when they take the new twice yearly fitness tests (see No Mandatory PT? above) and when they participate in unit PT sessions. The Air Force will let airmen wear individual pieces of the PTU with “conservative civilian attire” for personal PT or when off-duty, according to an Air Force Uniform Office release. The service just rolled out in time for the Air Force Marathon last month a new lightweight running short. (AFUO report by Brad Jessmer)
The Space Force recently awarded SpaceX $739 million to launch nine missions for the Space Development Agency and National Reconnaissance Office over the next three years. Five of the awarded launches will be to build out SDA’s constellation of missile warning and tracking satellites in low-Earth orbit.
