The Air Force will soon announce how it plans to cut 25,000 airmen over the next five years if sequestration continues, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh told Air Force Times reporter Stephen Losey. In this week’s Air Force Times, you can read how the Air Force expects to make those cuts. In other news, a plan to rapidly deploy F-22 fighters is closer to reality after a successful test this summer at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. The concept would drastically cut the logistics and overhead needed to schedule a deployment. Meanwhile, the Air Force Academy is allowing junior cadets…
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The Air Force will soon announce how it plans to cut 25,000 airmen over the next five years if sequestration continues, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh told Air Force Times reporter Stephen Losey. In this week’s Air Force Times, you can read how the Air Force expects to make those cuts. In other news, a plan to rapidly deploy F-22 fighters is closer to reality after a successful test this summer at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. The concept would drastically cut the logistics and overhead needed to schedule a deployment. Meanwhile, the Air Force Academy is allowing junior cadets…
Two Air Force pilots granted whistle-blower protection have said publicly that they refuse to fly the F-22, which has been plagued by oxygen problems. Eleven F-22 pilots have suffered hypoxia – oxygen deprivation – in the cockpit since September, and five maintainers have complained of similar symptoms, a spokesman for Air Combat Command said. “I’m not comfortable flying the F-22 right now,” Maj. Jeremy Gordon, with the Virginia Air National Guard, told CBS’ “60 Minutes.” The Air Force says it is pulling out all the stops to hone in on the problem, and has physiologists, doctors, engineers and others looking…
Two Air Force pilots granted whistle-blower protection have said publicly that they refuse to fly the F-22, which has been plagued by oxygen problems. Eleven F-22 pilots have suffered hypoxia – oxygen deprivation – in the cockpit since September, and five maintainers have complained of similar symptoms, a spokesman for Air Combat Command said. “I’m not comfortable flying the F-22 right now,” Maj. Jeremy Gordon, with the Virginia Air National Guard, told CBS’ “60 Minutes.” The Air Force says it is pulling out all the stops to hone in on the problem, and has physiologists, doctors, engineers and others looking…
