The Air Force is poised to increase its ranks of battlefield airmen to roughly 10,000 by fiscal year 2011 and may surge its total number of strategic airlift tails to just over 300 aircraft to support an anticipated troop increase for the Army and Marine Corps, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley said today. The increases to current Air Force personnel and airlift levels, cited by Moseley during a media round table at the Pentagon, were based...
