Moseley: Move to ACC Will Elevate CSAR to 'Primary Mission' Status

By John T. Bennett / February 27, 2006 at 5:00 AM
Shifting combat search and rescue-focused aircraft and personnel under Air Combat Command will elevate CSAR operations to "primary mission" status and speed the process of dispatching platforms for such tasks, service Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley told Inside the Air Force today. "I think it is better to be in Air Combat Command as a primary mission area than in [AFSOC], where it's not a primary mission area," Moseley said during a telephone interview. "To me, this decision...

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