The Air Force's fiscal year 2007 budget request totals nearly $105.9 billion and features greatly increased funding for aircraft recapitalization, heavy investment in unmanned aerial vehicles and the initial dollars to replace its aging tanker fleet, according to a service official who was involved in the budget-making process. "We expect when we're all said and done going through this, we'll be a much smaller force, a lean force," the official told reporters last week at the Pentagon. "We'll be a...
