New airmen are not surprised to find themselves driving trucks in the desert or in a firefight in Iraq, Moseley said at the AEI conference. He explained that “40 percent” of the people in the Air Force today came in after 9/11, so have no recollection of a different time. “They know exactly what they’re getting into,” Moseley asserted. He added that 80 percent of today’s Air Force personnel are post-Cold War airmen so they only know an expeditionary style of service. “This is what we do,” he said.
How would you implement Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s instruction for the Pentagon to find eight percent in budget cuts that can be reallocated to other priorities? Top defense analysts and experts had a wide array of answers during a recent think tank workshop.