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AF hits recruiting goal for 10th straight year

The Air Force met its enlisted recruiting goal for the 10th consecutive year by recruiting 31,983 airmen in fiscal 2009, barely exceeding its goal of 31,980, officials announced Tuesday.

“The Air Force continues to attract the highest quality men and women to serve in this great Air Force,” Brig. Gen. A.J. Stewart, Air Force Recruiting Service commander, said in a statement. “I’m proud of our highly professional, all-volunteer recruiting force who tirelessly works to find these excellent young people from all areas of the country.”

Of those recruits, more than 80 percent scored in the top 50th percentile in the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.

In fiscal 2010, which started Oct. 1, the Air Force will work to recruit 31,750 new airmen.

The Air Force career fields most in need of personnel in 2009 — such as combat controllers, pararescue and security forces — will remain in demand in 2010.

The Air National Guard recruited 10,075 new airmen last year, 106 percent of its goal of 9,500. The Air Force Reserve reported 8,604 accessions, 109 percent of its annual goal of 7,863.