Air Force efforts to encourage junior officers to volunteer to leave active duty have delivered more than a third of the 4,000 airmen the service must cut to reach its authorized Fiscal 2006 end strength. As of last week, the service still had another 2,657 to go, but it is narrowing the field as the Air Force Personnel Center identifies which career fields in the 2002 and 2003 officer year groups are “balanced.” Read more here.
United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket is slated to fly its second national security mission in February—nearly six months after its first operational launch and almost a year after it was certified to fly military payloads for the Space Force.
