AF targets another 600 for cuts
Not enough airmen have volunteered to leave this year, and now 1,700 are at risk of being forced out under a new round of date of separation rollbacks.
- Jun. 19, 2013
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Not enough airmen have volunteered to leave this year, and now 1,700 are at risk of being forced out under a new round of date of separation rollbacks....
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The future of a long-stymied Air Force effort to buy new combat search-and-rescue helicopters is once again uncertain as top-level generals are intensely debating the type of aircraft and which arm of the service is best suited to conduct this critical mi...
Senior Airman Dcoridrion Hicks achieved in June 2012 the elite title of master military training instructor, a feat no other MTI of his rank had accomplished in at least a decade....
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