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active and reserve components stand united, along with Air Force leadership, behind the difficult decisions made regarding Air Force force structure in Fiscal 2013 and the ultimate goal of “sustaining a ready, a vital, and a viable Total Force,” said Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz June 11. That doesn’t mean, though, that Air Force leadership isn’t still open to “different perspectives” that are based on “fact” and are “unemotionally deliberated,” said Schwartz during an Air Force Association-sponsored Air Force Breakfast Program speech in Arlington, Va. In fact, “it’s in this spirit of candor and collegial discourse that reserve component leadership and I are developing the terms of reference for an independent study—the Air Force Reserve Component 2020 Study—which will evaluate our Total Force effort and work toward achieving an even more effective Total Force,” said Schwartz. However, he noted that the Air Force’s proposed study may be overtaken by the national commission that the Senate Armed Services Committee would like to see established to independently assess the Air Force’s Total Force makeup. “In the meantime, the Air Force Reserve and National Guard leadership will be involved at every step of our analysis and our decision-making,” said Schwartz.
Airman 1st Class Marcus White-Allen concocted a story to cover up that he fired his M18 9mm pistol into Airman Braden Lovan’s chest, killing him on July 20, two Airmen from F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., testified during separate courts martial proceedings on Oct. 30-31.
