Air Force officials say they must involuntary retrain up to 777 active duty noncommissioned officers into chronically short career fields. Some 300 airmen elected to select their preferred new career field. The Air Force Personnel Center posts a vulnerability list each week here.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.