According to the knowledgeable Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute, Army officials are concerned about the Pentagon’s plan to limit the buy of new C-17 airlifters to just 180 (or 187, if Congress approves USAF’s unfunded request). Thompson made this claim in a May 3 issue paper and in remarks at the Heritage Foundation last week. In his issue paper, Thompson does not name names, but he states that “senior Army officials” believe USAF must buy more C-17s otherwise the Army’s “future combat systems may lack adequate mobility.” So where were these “senior” officials when last year’s Mobility Capabilities Study determined 180 was the magic number
Active-Duty Airmen only have a few days left to submit an official waist-to-height ratio into the Air Force’s new online application. But the service clarified July 23 that this first body composition measurement is not meant to be scored as part of the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA