Lawmakers have been waiting for a better explanation than has been forthcoming from the Pentagon over its plan to remake the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. According to The Hill, the lawmakers’ chief concern is over the policy shop’s plans for the Congressionally created Office Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. The Congressional newspaper reports that a Capitol Hill “source” says lawmakers have gotten “less comfortable” with each succeeding Pentagon briefing.
The Air Force is on track to reach its annual goal of graduating 1,500 new pilots that had proved elusive to this point, one year after the service launched a sweeping overhaul of its undergraduate pilot training program, Air Education and Training Command said Sept. 14.
