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.
The Pentagon is considering ditching the Air Force’s plan to buy the E-7 Wedgetail as it looks to outsource the airborne target-tracking mission to space, defense officials indicated this week.