Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, and CMSAF James Roy have sent a message to airmen saying they are committed “to eliminating sexual assault” from the service. “Sexual assault is a crime, and there is no place for this behavior in our Air Force. We demand better of ourselves,” they wrote in their letter to airmen. Although the Defense Department conducts its own sexual assault study every year, USAF contracted the Gallup polling company to conduct an anonymous survey to get a better idea of the magnitude of the problem. Gallup found that in the 12 months prior to its survey, 2,143 female airmen (3.4 percent) and 1,355 male airmen (0.5 percent) believed that they had been sexually assaulted, a significant spike compared to the 585 sexual assaults officially reported in the Air Force in Fiscal 2010. (SAF/PA release) (Gallup report; caution, large file)
The Air Force is finished evaluating the proposed “interim” fix for the KC-46’s troubled remote vision system, and is moving toward finalizing the design of the “2.0” overhaul of the system. The Air Force is more focused on the 2.0 overhaul, and “we’ve completed nearly every aspect of the design”…