The Air Force Association’s annual Air Warfare Symposium runs Feb. 24-26, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. It features a range of speakers, including Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, leaders of the service’s major commands, and other aviation and aerospace experts. The theme of this year’s conference is “global precision attack.” For up-to-date information from AFA about the conference, click here. Track the conference on social media by following us on Twitter and Facebook or by using #AWS16.
Amid a high-profile recruiting crisis, Air Force leaders and experts have increasingly noted the challenging long-term trends the service will face in enticing young Americans to sign up—decreasing eligibility to serve, less propensity to do so, and less familiarity with the military. But while those same leaders say there’s no “silver…