Despite a headline that proclaims the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia is “feeling budget squeeze,” the ALC’s financial manager, Mike Mehrman, tells the Macon Telegraph that he is confident the center can handle the coming budget crunch. According to the Telegraph, the center’s 2006 operations and maintenance funding is about 13 percent less than budgeted and, like other Air Force elements, faces an even bigger reduction for 2007.
The Pentagon is significantly bolstering airpower near Venezuela, dispatching the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to Latin America, it said in an Oct. 24 statement. The announcement came just hours after U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers and other U.S. assets flew near the Venezuelan coast on Oct. 23.
