Air Guard Director Downplays Talk Of Rift With Air Force Over Force Structure (Updated)

By Maggie Ybarra / September 18, 2012 at 11:02 PM
(Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect that the Council of Governors was created by executive order in 2010 and not by Congress as originally reported.) The director of the Air National Guard today disputed allegations of a growing rift between the Guard and the Air Force following a tumultuous year in which budget cuts associated with the service's new force-structure strategy fell heavily on the Guard, prompting a group of governors to push back. During a...

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