| Branch | U.S. Air Force |
| Series | AFI |
| Publication date | 2018-02-09 (8.5 years ago) |
| Status | Not in the current catalog |
| Proponent / OPR | SAF/MGM |
| Source of record | AF e-Publishing |
The official file returns HTTP 404 when we checked on 2026-07-31, and AFI 38-402 is not in the publisher’s product index under either the current or the obsolete flag. There is no official copy left to link to. That is expected for a publication we record as not in the current catalog — portals remove the file once a publication leaves force. It is recorded here so the link does not simply fail in your hands.
Address on record: https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/publication/afi38-402/afi38-402.pdf. We check the link by requesting it, not by assuming it works.
| Functional community | Publications | Which ones |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections & Special Management | 2 | AFI 90-301 AFRC Sup, AFI 90-201 AMC Sup |
| Materiel Management | 2 | AFI 23-101 AFMC Sup, DAFMAN 23-300 ACC Sup |
| Financial Management | 1 | AFI 65-601V2 |
| Law | 1 | AFI 51-303 |
| Maintenance | 1 | AFI 21-101 ACC Sup |
7 publications in 5 other communities depend on this one, which Manpower & Organization owns. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.
If AFI 38-402 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.
Records in this branch carrying the same series and number — interim changes, guidance memoranda, and unit supplements. A copy stamped with one of these is a different document from the base publication.