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January 2008
| By Robert S. Dudney Washington’s apathy toward USAF’s geriatric fleet comes close to outright negligence. |
| By Rebecca Grant US armed forces face “peer” adversaries in only one area—military cyberspace. |
| By Richard Halloran The island is the pivot of a sweeping realignment of US forces in the Pacific. |
 | By John A. Tirpak At AFA’s Los Angeles Space Symposium, leaders say the Air Force has set a strong new course in space. |
 | By Marc V. Schanz Desperate to save money, USAF will cut 10 percent from its flying hours program this year. |
| Photography by Ted Carlson and USAF photographers Airmen from USAF and foreign nations come to Alaska for realistic air combat training. |
| By John T. Correll North Vietnam’s 1968 offensive failed, but public opinion converted it into a defeat for the United States. |
| By Jeremy Singer TSAT will pass huge amounts of data at speeds that are truly staggering. |
| Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), a key member of the Congressional defense establishment, sees some negative trend lines. |
| By Walter J. Boyne Recent events spark memories of what had been USAF’s jewel in North Africa. |
| By Bruce D. Callander Their lineage goes back a long way, and they play a vital role in today’s Air Force. |
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Verbatim
Preemptive Action
"Since the [Defense] Department's acceptance of the independent estimates last fall, we've been, in just about every respect, acting as if the program were in a Nunn-McCurdy breach. ... We've been taking all of the mitigating and corrective action that we would take as if there were a Nunn-McCurdy breach."
—Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, discussing with reporters the restructure of the F-35 strike fighter program announced in February 2010 and the probability that the program will soon exceed Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds that would necessitate, per US law, a program review and corrective steps, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2010. |
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Message for Grandma
"She has working for her as a citizen in the United States an Air Force Reserve that has some very talented, capable, patriotic, and willing individuals doing the business to keep this nation free. Just like her generation—the 'Greatest Generation'—was, I am very proud of the folks that we have got. If not the second greatest, then they are an extension of the greatest generation and they are ready, willing, and able to do the things that she would want them to do to make sure we keep our freedoms."
—Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, Air Force Reserve chief, responding to a reporter's question on what the reporter should tell his 85-year-old grandmother to convey to her the importance of Air Force Reservists to the nation's security, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19, 2010.
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