AFI 51-402 is listed as currentCurrent in the AF e-Publishing catalog as of our last index refresh (2026-08-23). Status is mirrored from that catalog, re-checked weekly — every change is logged. Note: its publication date is 2018-08-06 — 8.1 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.
A Guidance Memorandum dated 2026-05-12 modifies this publication. AFI 51-402 is still the current edition and its publication date has not changed — a GM is issued against an edition, takes effect immediately, and is normally folded into the next rewrite. The official PDF includes the GM at the front; if your saved copy predates 2026-05-12, download it again.
If AFI 51-402 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.
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