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A Lineage of Leadership
Sheppard Air Force Base Commander General Ronald Jolly discusses leadership and legacy in the Summer 2019 issue of Wichita Falls Living. Click here to view the article.
The drawdown blew a hole in the Air Force’s maintenance ranks. How it’s digging its way out.
March 5, 2017 Before the steep force management cuts of 2014 hit the Air Force’s ranks, maintainers at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina — home of the 20th Fighter Wing and its roughly 79 F-16CM Fighting Falcons — worked about 40 to 50 hours a week. It was tough...
Pentagon Could Look to Close Bases Without BRAC Authorization
WASHINGTON – For several years, the Pentagon has been blocked by Congress in its request to begin another round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). Now, facing an expected wave of modernization bills in the next decade, a top DoD official has suggested the...
Expanding Goals of BRAC Could Improve Its Political Prospects, O’Hanlon Says
BRAC has always been a hard sell, a point borne out by the Obama administration’s failure to persuade lawmakers to authorize one or more base closure rounds over the past five years. Maybe if the Pentagon were to broaden the aims of the BRAC process from simply...
“Congressman Thornberry’s House Armed Services Committee still working with Senate in conference Committee to agree to a 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.”
Topline Spending Still Remains a Hurdle in Reaching a Deal on Authorization Bill While leaders of the Armed Services committees have pointed to a dispute of whether the greater sage grouse should be barred from being placed on the endangered species list as the...
Vets, Retirees Will See A 0.3% COLA Hike In 2017
Military retirees and individuals receiving veterans benefits will see only a 0.3 percent cost-of-living increase in their federal benefits next year, a nominal increase matching 2016’s hike. On Tuesday, officials from the Social Security Administration announced the...
Readiness Subcommittee Retains Ban on BRAC
The House Armed Services’ Readiness Subcommittee dismisses the Obama administration’s latest request to hold a BRAC round in 2019, according to its portion of the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill. The language in the draft bill released Tuesday stating that,...
DOD Analysis Reveals Significant Excess Capacity in Army Air Force Facilities
About one-third of Army and Air Force infrastructure is excess to those services’ needs, according to a broad capacity analysis released by the Defense Department. Overall, 22 percent of the department’s capacity is excess; only 7 percent of the Navy’s infrastructure...
Air Force, Local Leaders Seek Compromise over Proposed Textile Plant outside March ARB
21 March 2016 Officials from March Air Reserve Base in Southern California and local authorities are hoping to avoid a potential conflict over a proposed textile plant that would be located in the airfield’s Accident Potential Zone 1. The project still is in the...
Congress Fails to Appreciate How BRAC Hurts Communitites
Congress Fails to Appreciate How the BRAC Ban Is Hurting Communities, Analyst Says Over the past four years, lawmakers have come up with multiple reasons to reject the Pentagon’s request to hold one or more rounds of base closures, but none of them have held up under...