Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today he will immediately curtail the Air Force's planned 40,000 personnel draw-down. The reversal of course in the airmen-reduction plan, engineered by outgoing Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley to put more money toward rebuilding an aging fleet of aircraft and space satellites, is Gates' latest move in his shake-up of the service following his decision to fire the top civilian and military leaders last week. "I intend...
