'More tooth, less tail': Air Force wants to ditch excess infrastructure to meet Trump administration objectives

By Vanessa Montalbano / March 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
At the top of the Air Force's list of solutions to ensure deterrence and protect the homeland -- concepts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has laid out as central to building lethality and military readiness -- is acknowledging an "unkept secret" about the toll of caring for the service's excess infrastructure, Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said today. After years of putting facility maintenance aside to deal with other modernization needs within a constrained budget, lawmakers in the Fiscal Year...

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