Top Air Force recruiter predicts maintainer, security forces shortage
By Rachel S. Cohen
Friday, Apr 7
Air Force recruiters have made gains in new enlistments over the past few months, but the service still projects it will fall thousands of airmen short in critical units next year.
To build on its recent gains, the Air Force’s recruiting branch is launching a concerted push through the summer to bring in as many new airmen as possible.
“We’re currently down 900 maintainers that will not show up for shift change tonight on the flight line,” Chief Master Sgt. W. Frank Rawls, the Recruiting Service’s operations superintendent, wrote in an organization-wide email on Wednesday. “Unless we stop the bleeding, 700 defenders, who are badly needed to keep watch over our missile fields and checkpoints, won’t be there come [Sept. 30].”
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/04/07/top-air-force-recruiter-predicts-maintainer-security-forces-shortage/
