Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown said this week the service will request a similar slate of legacy aircraft retirements in its fiscal year 2022 budget despite pushback from lawmakers last year, telling reporters he's been ramping up congressional engagement to start earlier conversations about the strategy behind the service's force structure proposals. Brown said Thursday during a media briefing at the Air Force Association's virtual Air Warfare Symposium that he had four meetings with lawmakers and their...
