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.
The U.S. military is sending more fighter jets to the Middle East to step up its war with Iran, adding to what is already the largest buildup of airpower in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. For now, the operation shows little sign of coming to a quick…