Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown, the first Black service chief in U.S. history, saluted pioneering Black aviators including the Tuskegee Airmen as he assumed command of the Air Force.
The roughly 2,100-pilot shortfall, which the former Air Force secretary once warned could "break the force" has remained largely unchanged over the last few years.
“This is not a Minneapolis issue, this is an Air Force issue,” Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein said. “What goes on in the streets of America, we know is going on to a certain extent in the Air Force.”
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