Air Force Reserve Command says it has already passed its recruiting goal for 2006, taking in the 8,001 recruit on Aug. 31. Officials credit Reserve airmen for providing the most enlisted recruiting leads to the command’s recruiters, under a program AFRC calls “Get One Now.” There’s still one month to go before the command tallies its final 2006 numbers.
The nation needs a better-coordinated policy for dealing with unmanned aerial systems that threaten domestic bases, Air Force vice chief of staff Gen. James C. Slife told a panel of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He and Pentagon acquisition and sustainment chief William LaPlante co-chair a panel looking at counter-UAS…