AFA National President Bob Largent says the airmen—active, Guard, and Reserve—he has talked with on his tour of US Central Command’s area of operations are professional, resourceful, and dedicated. He notes the creative enhancements one unit of airmen developed to make their “Army duty” safer and more efficient and more. Read about it here.
The Air Force overall reduced its size by 120 aircraft in fiscal year 2021, but kept about the same number of fighter, bomber and attack aircraft, according to data supplied by the service. The F-35 fleet saw the biggest increase while the B-1B bomber fleet saw the largest decline.