Air Force says service still needs to be bigger - seeks 386 squadrons

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Air Force says service still needs to be bigger - seeks 386 squadrons
During Desert Storm the Air Force went to war with 12 operational squadrons
By Kris Osborn | Warrior Maven
 

Elaborate U.S. Air Force wargaming against potential major adversaries has again reinforced the services’ growth assessment request to still increase service size to 386 squadrons, up from 312.

“We are doing lots of war games against peer competitors and came out to 386. That number is still the goal and then getting the right mix of the right squadrons and making sure they are ready to meet our nation’s demands,” General Stephen Wilson, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, told The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies in a recent interview.

Wilson, and his former fellow Air Force pilot Lieutenant General David Deptula, Dean of the Mitchell Institute, both served during Desert Storm in the early 1990s when the Air Force went to war with 12 operational squadrons. “Now we have less,” Deptula said in his conversation with Wilson.

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/air-force-says-service-still-needs-to-be-bigger-seeks-386-squadrons

[sneakypete]

I know nothing about the structure of the USAF,and their staffing and equipment needs,other than like every other bureaucracy in DC,they want to expand their Empire.

386 active duty squadrons sure seems like a lot to me,though.

Any Airdales out there interested in commenting? Seems reasonable,or ridiculous?