New Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne believes people must stop viewing the word “recapitalization” as synonymous with aircraft. He told Air Force journalist MSgt. Mitch Gettle earlier this week that more within the service needs recapitalization. “Where we know we have advanced technologies, we want to introduce them; where we know we have emerging missions, we want to satisfy them,” explained Wynne. Where the rubber meets the airfield for Wynne, though, is in having data upon which to base “credible decisions.”
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.