The latest recruiting and retention numbers show that the Air National Guard has broken a five-month recruiting slump. For the month of March, ANG made 100 percent of its recruiting goal—and the goal was higher, not lower, than it had been over the past four months. Air Guard retention was also stable at 100 percent. All services exceeded their active duty recruiting and retention goals, and only the Army and Navy Reserves did not meet their recruiting goals.
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…