Air Force Details Force Structure Plans

By Courtney Albon / March 11, 2014 at 4:19 PM
The Air Force in its fiscal year 2015 budget proposes cutting 500 aircraft through 2019, including as many as 164 A-10s in FY-15 and 117 MQ-1 Predators between FY-15 and 17. The Air Force on March 10 released a document detailing its force structure reduction plan, listing states that would lose aircraft and during what time frame. According to the document, the majority of the force structure changes -- the retirement or rebasing of 422 aircraft -- would begin or...

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