Air Force Slowly Boosting its Maintainer Ranks: General
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F-16 maintainers from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., check out one of their aircraft May 6, 2014 at Hill AFB.F-16 maintainers from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., check out one of their aircraft May 6, 2014 at Hill AFB.
Posted By: Oriana Pawlyk February 2, 2017
The Air Force is adding 40 maintainers per month to its ranks, an incremental boost at a time when the service finds itself short of roughly 4,000 airmen in the career field, an official said Thursday.
Air Force leadership last year recognized it needed to redistribute manpower to critical needs such as maintenance, said Lt. Gen. John Cooper, deputy chief of staff for logistics, engineering and force protection.
“We were able to shave that down to about 3,400 maintainers short, and we’re planning on getting that number down to zero by the 2020-2021 [timeframe],” Cooper told an audience at an Air Force Association breakfast outside Washington, D.C.
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