The Air Force may be backing off its plan to cut about 30 general officers as part of its overall effort to cut some 40,000 people by the end of Fiscal 2009. A service official said that Air Force leaders believe the service needs more star power in joint billets. There is no official word yet on just how many generals will be cut.
China’s premier air exercise, analogous to the U.S. Air Force’s Red Flag, encompassed around 200 aircraft, spanned 1,200 nautical miles, and lasted five weeks to close 2025, according to an intelligence analysis revealed at AFA’s Warfare Symposium.
