MSgt. Kenneth Oswald, with the 26th Fighter Wing Safety Office at Cannon AFB, N.M., has received $7,000 for recommending a different lock removal procedure on the F-16 aircraft to prevent compressor case damage. His suggestion, according to a base news release, will save the Air Force $50,342.
A new Air Force plan for how many fighters it needs in the next decade marks a sharp upturn from what it thought it needed just seven years ago. But analysts worry that the aspirational plan now in Congress' hands doesn’t make a tight enough connection to national strategy.
