The Air Force is in the midst of reshuffling its rated force to eliminate an imbalance that has put too many airmen in fighters and bombers and too few in other rapidly growing arenas of unmanned aerial vehicles, special operations, and command and control. As the service works this force restructure, leaders want to ensure they maintain a “proper balance” of Air Force and mission needs and individual needs, says Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley in a new CSAF’s Scope. To do that, Moseley is enlisting the “critical” help of group and squadron commanders to help “decide which airmen to move and when to move them.”
The top Air Force commander on on the Japanese island of Okinawa has clamped down alcohol and issued a curfew for junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians at Kadena Air Base for the next month. The order came roughly two weeks after a U.S. Marine was arrested for allegedly robbing and…