CMSAF James Roy said training is the one thing that keeps him up at night. “This one concerns me the most,” said Roy Wednesday during AFA’s Air & Space Conference in National Harbor, Md. As DOD works through efficiency initiatives and goes through reducing its budget, he explained, the tendency will be “to eliminate some of our training.” Roy maintained, “We are risking our future if we do that.” It’s vital the Air Force remains focused on both initial training as well as upgrade training, he said.
Since President Donald Trump first unveiled his “Golden Dome” missile defense initiative in late January, much of the focus for it has been focused on space—how the Pentagon may deploy dozens, if not hundreds, of sensors and interceptors into orbit to protect the continental U.S. from missile barrages. But the Air…