The name of SSgt. Andrew Brunn, an Air National Guardsman and New York City firefighter who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was emblazoned with honor on the entryway of the Air Force’s Combined Air Operations Center in Qatar. The commemorization took place on Dec. 22. Brunn was a member of one of the first ladder companies to reach the World Trade Center. He and his team was trying to evacuate injured civilians when the building collapsed.
The Air Force rolled out new interim height standards for Career Enlisted Aviators aimed at improving aircrew diversity and “safely meeting accession demands,” as the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center works to update a 1967 anthropometric study used to establish USAF flight requirements for more than half a century.…