Air Combat Command must select 500 enlisted active-duty airmen—technical sergeant and below—to retrain from their current career fields, now that the service has entered, what it calls Phase II, or involuntary retraining, of the NCO Retraining Program for Fiscal 2008. ACC had 902 airmen of USAF’s total 1,512 in the target retraining group. According to ACC officials, 402 airmen volunteered to retrain into undermanned fields. (ACC report by TSgt. Russell Wicke)
Shield AI has entered the increasingly crowded field of Collaborative Combat Aircraft, this week announcing its “X-BAT” vehicle that stands out from others by having both vertical takeoff and landing capability and supersonic speed.
