The Air Force’s latest accounting of its personnel shows that, as of Aug. 31, the service has 346,166 active duty members, comprising 71,691 officers and 274,475 enlisted airmen. Its civilian force has 145,620 employees, the majority (76.1 percent) of whom are “white collar” employees. Women make up nearly 20 percent of the service’s active duty airmen. For more raw numbers, read here.
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.