Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) believe legislation they have sponsored that would raise the cost of living adjustment for disabled veterans will pass the Senate this week. According to a statement from the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Congress has passed such measures every year since 1976. If approved, it would take effect Dec. 1 and provide an average increase of around 2.9 percent.
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.…