Posted on 09/17/2018 1:01:54 PM PDT by caww
he proposed addition of 74 new combat squadrons to the Air Force would be the biggest increase in the service since the Cold War and is specifically intended to counter growing threats from Russia and China.
“We must see the world as it is. … We must prepare,” Wilson said. “We have returned to an era of great power competition."
Wilson acknowledges it will take time and additional funding to acquire the aircraft and recruit the pilots and additional personnel crews, but she called the planned expansion “an obligation to our countrymen.
“We aren’t naive about how long it will take us to build the support and the budget required for the force we need,” she said. “To face the world as it is, with a rapidly innovating adversary, the Air Force we need should have about 25 percent more operational squadrons in the 2025-2030 timeframe than the Air Force we have.
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Had a senior moment - was Pease, AFB, NH......
The USAF can barely keep the pilots they have now. We’re supposed to believe they can grow the force to this level?
Yes of course.
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