In a new undated letter to airmen, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley encourage them to respect the diversity of the men and women in the service and to be intolerant of harassment. Moseley and Wynne tell the airmen that “under enemy fire the race, religion, sex, or geographic origin of the airman fighting next to us is irrelevant,” reminding them that “we’re in this fight together.”
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…