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ALMANAC 22 USAF Almanac 2014 24 The Air Force in Facts and Figures Structure of the Force People Budgets Equipment Grades and Insignia Awards and Decorations 43 Major Commands and Air Reserve Components Air Combat Command Air Education and Training Command Air Force Global Strike Command Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Reserve Command Air Force Space Command Air Force Special Operations Command Air Mobility Command Pacifi c Air Forces US Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa Air National Guard 24 55 FOAs, DRUs, and Auxiliary Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation Air Force Audit Agency Air Force Civil Engineer Center Air Force Cost Analysis Agency Air Force District of Washington Air Force Financial Services Center Air Force Flight Standards Agency Air Force Historical Research Agency Air Force Inspection Agency Air Force Intelligence Analysis Agency Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency Air Force Legal Operations Agency Air Force Medical Operations Agency Air Force Medical Support Agency 43 Air Force Offi ce of Special Investigations Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center Air Force Operations Group Air Force Personnel Center Air Force Personnel Operations Agency Air Force Petroleum Agency Air Force Public Affairs Agency Air Force Review Boards Agency Air Force Safety Center Air Force Security Forces Center Air Force Weather Agency ANG Readiness Center Civil Air Patrol US Air Force Academy 58 Guide to Air Force Installations Worldwide Active Duty Installations ANG and AFRC Installations 70 Gallery of USAF Weapons About the cover: Bald Eagle in Alaska. 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AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2014 1 DEPARTMENTS 94 Leaders Through the Years 6 Letters The Nation’s Air Arm and Its Early Leaders 10 Aperture Headquarters USAF Leaders Pilotless futures; Modular airplanes; Leaders of Active Major Commands Strategic agility; Invisible jammers .... and ANG Leaders of Inactive Major Commands 14 Air Force World Headquarters DOD Leaders 19 Index to Advertisers Unifi ed Command, National Guard Bureau, and NORAD Leaders 20 Senior Staff Changes Leaders of Inactive Unifi ed Com- mands 21 Verbatim 105 Guide to Aces and Heroes 122 AFA National Leaders Major Decorations 132 Chart Page Special: Defense Budget Air Force Aces at a Glance 124 CSAR in Afghanistan 136 Keeper File: Fogleman Calls Out the By Department of Defense photog- Militia 55 raphers Meet the “Guardian Angels” and 138 Flashback: Stare of the Dog “Pedros” of Operation Enduring Freedom. 140 AFA National Report 143 Reunions 144 Airpower Classics: F-4 Phantom II www.airforcemag.com Publisher: Craig R. 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Make the transition to part-time service in the Air National Guard, and you can achieve your civilian career goals while continuing to receive military benefits, including: Regular paycheck Eligibility for VA home loans Military retirement Montgomery GI Bill Low-cost health insurance Pick up the phone or visit our website today to learn more. /blue 877- 331-2227 Editorial By Adam J. Hebert, Editor in Chief Records You Don’t Want To Set DECADE ago, the Air Force was at little to deliver the nation a next genera- be a hard sell: In recent years, lawmak- A war and fielded a Total Force fleet tion Air Force—and now the money is ers have eagerly ordered the Defense of 2,526 fighters, 182 bombers, 637 quickly drying up. Department to increase military pay tankers, and 976 transports. In mid-April came DOD’s “Estimated and benefits, even with recruiting and Ten years later, USAF is still at war Impacts of Sequestration-Level Fund- retention at or near all-time highs. But and operates 514 fewer fighters, 23 ing” report. If Congress does not end if Congress does not go along with fewer bombers, 136 fewer tankers, the sequester, it will hit readiness and DOD proposals such as a one percent and 193 fewer transports. modernization hard. One-third of the military pay raise in 2015, the Penta- In 2004, the force was already feel- cuts would come from operations and gon will have to come up with another ing the effects of the 1990s “procure- maintenance accounts, and two-thirds $31.2 billion through 2019. “DOD must ment holiday.” B-1 bombers averaged from modernization. Personnel cost also train and equip those we send 16 years old, F-15s were 19, the A-10 growth would slow, but we’ll have more into harm’s way to meet the national fleet averaged 22 years old, the T-38 on that assumption later. security challenges of the future,” the trainer was 36, and USAF’s B-52 report dryly notes. bombers and KC-135 tankers were Will the smallest and A decade ago, the Air Force was both 42. oldest US Air Force strained. Today the combat forces are Ten years later, through the magic wither away? smaller and older. Recent modernization of not buying aircraft, each of those was concentrated in space, mobility, and fleets is exactly 10 years older. In the The Air Force is already dealing with a intelligence, surveillance, and recon- intervening decade, USAF bought zero years-long decline in readiness, brought naissance accounts. bombers, retired more than twice as on in part by the heavy use its aircraft “The Air Force is now spending about many fighters as it purchased, just have endured in the War on Terror. five percent of its [budget] to buy new recently got the KC-46 tanker program According to DOD, a return to se- aircraft”—another record low, wrote started, and is still mulling a new questration funding in 2016 will re- Mark A. Gunzinger, senior fellow at the bomber and a T-38 replacement. duce “readiness funding by $16 billion Center for Strategic and Budgetary As- The Air Force is older and smaller [through 2019] to include approximately sessments, and David A. Deptula, dean than ever, and things might get much $9 billion … in maintenance, which of the Air Force Association’s Mitchell worse. The Fiscal 2015 budget, for would further increase service mainte- Institute for Aerospace Studies, in a re- example, proposes retiring the A-10 nance backlogs.” For the Air Force, this cent CSBA report, “Toward a Balanced and U-2 fleets to help make ends meet. would mean weapon systems sustain- Combat Air Force.” The US is now a military spending ment accounts would be cut to just 67 During the later years of the Cold outlier. The Stockholm International percent of requirements. War, USAF offset the Warsaw Pact’s Peace Research Institute recently The modernization cuts would be huge numerical advantages by fielding a studied military expenditures world- more dramatic, if only because they technologically advanced force operated wide. By SIPRI’s accounting, US mili- are easier to visualize. According to the by highly trained airmen. Many of the tary spending declined by 7.8 percent report, from 2016 through 2019, a return same aircraft are still in service, and it is in 2013. to sequestration will bring: ever harder to keep up the maintenance This should not be shrugged off as Five fewer KC-46 tankers and training that allow the Air Force to inconsequential. In 2013, China’s mili- A three-year delay in the Combat be the world’s best. tary spending was almost the mirror Rescue Helicopter Something needs to change or USAF image of America’s, rising 7.4 percent 38 fewer MQ-9 Reapers will soon have too few aircraft and too in one year. 10 fewer MC-130J special opera- old an inventory to defeat advanced “Military spending in the rest of the tions transports threats. The Air Force could soon lack world excluding the United States in- One less GPS III satellite both capacity and capability.