The Defense Department directed US Strategic Command and the Air Force to conduct a study of the nuclear cruise missile force structure and “build a retirement schedule for the missiles,” according to written testimony presented by Maj. Gen. Roger Burg to the Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee Wednesday. (See above.) As a result of that review, USAF does plan to retire all Advanced Cruise Missiles and also to reduce the Air Launched Cruise Missile force to 528. It will retire the excess ALCMs and consolidate the remainder at Minot AFB, N.D., through at least 2020 or 2030.
Active-Duty Airmen only have a few days left to submit an official waist-to-height ratio into the Air Force’s new online application. But the service clarified July 23 that this first body composition measurement is not meant to be scored as part of the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA