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Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James
and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark
Welsh III testified before the Senate Ap-
propriations Committee on the fiscal 2017
Air Force posture on Capitol Hill Feb. 10.
Both James and Welsh stressed that the
need for airpower continues to rise and the
gap between the U.S. Air Force and its clos-
est pursuers is closing.
“Bottom line here is that … we are fully
engaged in every region of the world, in
every mission area, across the full spectrum
of military operations,” James said. “Put
simply: we have never been busier on such
a sustained and global basis.”
The Fiscal Year 2017 Air Force Posture
Statement states the president’s fiscal
2017 budget aims to build, train and
equip an Air Force capable of responding
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to today’s and tomorrow’s threats.
“The United States can’t fight, much less
win, today’s wars without airpower,” Welsh
said. “That’s just the way modern warfare
has moved. The demand signal for that
airpower continues to rise.
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Air Force officials released force structure
changes resulting from the president’s fiscal
2017 budget Feb. 12.
This year’s budget request continues the
momentum gained from the recovery pro-
vided by the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act,
but still reflects the tough choices the Air
Force was forced to make as the demand for
Air Force capability continues to increase as
the Budget Control Act looms in fiscal 2018.
The fiscal 2017 budget leverages the total
force — active duty, Guard and Reserve —
to maintain the service’s ability to support
ongoing operations while ensuring the ser-
vice is ready to face future threats. The bud-
get keeps the active-duty force at 317,000
while posturing the force for future growth.
Guard and Reserve manning will remain
constant, but the Air Force will continue
plans to transfer aircraft and flying mis-
sions to Air National Guard and Air Force
Reserve locations that would otherwise
have no mission due to fleet divestments.
The budget rephases divestment of the
A-10 Thunderbolt II to coincide with field-
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retirement of the first A-10s until fiscal
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A series of mobile applications developed
improve care in the air
The Air Force is committed to research
and basic doctrine.
route patient care.
The Air Mobility Command Surgeon
General’s office and researchers across the
Air Force, to include the 711th Human Re-
source Wing at Wright Patterson Air Force
Base, Ohio, have been working together to
improve how the Air Force provides care in
the air. The AMC/SG is responsible for clini-
cal oversight of the Air Force aeromedical
evacuation (AE) system.
“Over the last 15 years, the joint com-
munity has made tremendous strides in
providing care to our wounded warriors,”
said Col. Susan Dukes, the En Route Care
Research Division chief for the Air Force
School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright
Patterson AFB.
“We now have programs of research spe-
cific to en route care. It’s very important
to clinicians and researchers to capture
lessons learned in order to improve our
policies and procedures for patient care,”
Dukes said.
About every 12 to18 months, AMC con-
ducts a capability based assessment which
informs the surgeon general’s office where
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AF culture, standards
by the 367th Training Support Squadron at
Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is giving Airmen
ready access to Air Force standards, culture
While the unit — part of the 82nd
Training Wing’s 782nd Training Group at
Sheppard AFB, Texas — typically focuses
on computer-based training in support of
aircraft maintenance, its unique skill set
proved a perfect match when the Air Force
was looking for a way to put the “little blue
book” and other core Air Force documents
literally into the hands of Airmen.
“Our focus is mainly on developing com-
puter-based training or videos for maintain-
ers on the flightline,” said Tech. Sgt. Kaimi
Pacheco, the app designer. “So developing
mobile apps is a little out of the norm for
us, which is challenging. The other products
we create are mostly linear, or step by step,
in nature, but when you’re developing apps
you have to include functionality that lets
the user go in many different directions.”
Still, the team was confident it could not
only get the job done, but get it done quickly
and exceed expectations.
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