Montgomery, Ala. It is said that America's armed forces have been stressed by 16 years of constant warfare, the longest such period in the nation's history. For the Air Force, however, the high tempo of combat operations began 26 years ago, with enforcement of the no-fly zone in Iraq after Desert Storm. With an acute pilot shortage, particularly in the fighter-pilot community, and with a shortfall approaching 4,000 among maintenance and staffing personnel, the service is, as Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says, “too small for what the nation expects of it.” At the Air University here at Maxwell Air Force Base, officers are studying what expectations are reasonable ...
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