Turns out that, according to recent reports, the Air Force has the smallest percentage of smokers of all the services. The most recent data, from 2002, shows the worst smoking case to be the Marine Corps at 38.7 percent. The Navy was second at 36 percent, and then the Army at 35.6 percent. In the Air Force, smokers comprised 27 percent of the force.
Raytheon, a division of defense giant RTX, recently announced a multiyear deal with the Pentagon to increase annual production of the Air Force’s primary dogfighting missile by more than 50 percent from two years ago.
