National Guard chief discusses effort to help Air Force combat pilot shortage

By Rachel Cohen / December 14, 2017 at 1:38 PM
The Air National Guard's full-time force falls a couple hundred pilots short of where it needs to be, but the Guard is in a unique position to help grow the service's pilot pipeline, according to the head of the National Guard Bureau. At a Dec. 14 Air Force Association event, Gen. Joseph Lengyel noted some of the Guard's retention issues stem from paying its pilots in different ways. He did not offer a number for how many total pilots the...

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