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Slife: Before a New Force-Sizing Construct, Air Force Needs to Work On CCAs, Common Terms

Feb. 21, 2023 | By John A. Tirpak
The Air Force needs a new force-sizing construct to budget and plan to, but first has to figure out a force-presentation model to combatant commanders that’s worded in language and metrics common with the rest of the Joint force, Lt. Gen. James C. Slife, deputy ...

Brown Talks Force Structure, NGAD Records, and the Looming CR

Sept. 22, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
The Air Force still needs more than 300 combat squadrons, but the biggest priority is not number of squadrons but capability, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said Sept. 22. He also suggested the records set by the Next Generation Air Dominance prototype ...

As Cuts Loom, 386 Combat Squadrons—in the USAF and USSF—is Still the Goal

Sept. 15, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
Despite an anticipated flat budget for fiscal year 2022, the Air Force is still holding onto the goal of building up to 386 combat wings, or their equivalent in combat capability, senior leaders said in a press conference at AFA's virtual Air, Space & Cyber ...
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