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Sergeant of the Air Force Gerald R. Murray led a panel of command chiefs at AFA’s Air & Space Conference in Washington, D.C. One topic raised was whether the Air Force planned to link documented physical fitness levels to performance reports and, ultimately, promotion. The answer from Murray: Nothing is final but the service has a number of proposals under review. He says that staying fit is “a readiness issue for us, and we’re not going to back away from that.”
The KC-Z4, a blended wing body tanker concept being developed by startup JetZero, could fuel larger groups of aircraft at longer range to hold more targets at risk, company officials say.