The Air Force’s Fiscal 2007 officer drawdown plans (see above) target 313 twice-deferred-for-promotion lieutenant colonels or colonels who have four years in grade and are not already selected for promotion to general. If the service doesn’t get 313 volunteers, it will go for a SERB to be held from Jan. 8-19, 2007. Another 3,200 officers with more than six but less than 12 years of service are also in the crosshairs; these officers may elect to take voluntary separation pay, with a reserve commitment. And, some 900 junior officers—those with five years or less service—will face a force-shaping board to be held March 12-23, 2007. Since the numbers for these three groupings only add up to 4,413, the service must expect another 4,000 of various categories to walk out the door through normal attrition.
The Space Force must invest in high-level training based on the lessons learned from an unprecedented level of electronic warfare (EW) used by both Russia and Ukraine in the conflict there, one of the service’s top EW leaders said on April 24. “What we have seen in the Ukraine-Russia conflict…