Facing questions about new military executive orders, the Army chief of staff said only that he was focused on preparing the service for future conflict.
In an eight-day span, an Air Force sergeant fatally shot a federal security officer and wounded his partner outside a U.S. courthouse and ambushed and killed a California sheriff’s deputy and injured four other officers, federal authorities said Tuesday.
The roughly 2,100-pilot shortfall, which the former Air Force secretary once warned could "break the force" has remained largely unchanged over the last few years.
“This is not a Minneapolis issue, this is an Air Force issue,” Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein said. “What goes on in the streets of America, we know is going on to a certain extent in the Air Force.”
"The death of George Floyd is a national tragedy," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein said in a memo, sent hours after his top enlisted advisor declared "I am George Floyd."
A former Marine, he was the editor behind the Small Wars Journal, a online publication that was a must-read for anyone interested in counterinsurgency operations during the Iraq-and-Afghanistan era.