For those airmen fighting the war on terror in the Philippines, the Air Force has made getting decorations a shade easier. The vice commander of Pacific Air Forces now can approve all medals for airmen deployed for Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines, except for the Silver Star and higher, of course.
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.
