Air Force, At OSD's Insistence, Rolls Back Air National Guard Cuts (Updated)

By Gabe Starosta, Maggie Ybarra / April 24, 2012 at 4:14 PM
(Editor's note: This story has been updated to include information made public at 1:12 p.m. by the office of Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. It has also been edited to reflect that the Air Force had proposed cutting 9,900 personnel across all its components, not only the Air National Guard.) The Office of the Secretary of Defense has opted to adjust some of the Air Force's proposed force-structure changes and keep two-dozen...

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