The Air Force is still in the proverbial doghouse over its use of BRAC 2005 to introduce its Total Force realignment plans for the Air National Guard. The issue so inflamed state and national officials that Congress asked the GAO to review just how effective (or ineffective) the service was in working with the “stakeholders.” What the GAO found, documented in a recent report, was a mixed bag. USAF consulted the ANG leadership, leaving it up to them to “represent the states’ perspectives,” said the GAO. Even some elements within the active Air Force felt left out of the process, noted the report. The Congressional watchdog agency also claims USAF “lacks a fully developed management framework to guide the process and evaluate the results.”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. still “believes” in his mantra of “Accelerate Change or Lose”—and indicated the doctrinal changes it produced when he was Air Force Chief of Staff played a role in the service’s recent response to Iran’s aerial assault on Israel, he…