The Air Force wants enlisted airmen, especially those halfway through their first term, to consider becoming enlisted aviators. MSgt. Bill Bergen, the aviator career field in-service recruiter, told Daily Report Jan. 18 that there are more than 200 openings right now for flight engineers, loadmasters, airborne mission systems, flight attendants, and airborne cryptologic linguists. To encourage applicants, USAF officials are allowing interested airmen to leapfrog over the normal retraining window of opportunity.
The U.S. continued to move a significant amount of airpower toward the Middle East in recent days as talks to forge a nuclear deal with Iran hung in the balance. Flight tracking data indicate there was unusually heavy movement of dozens of fighter jets and other assets that might be…
