Air Force Addressing Shortage Of Maintainers
December 06 2017
The U.S. Air Force says it has improved its shortfall of maintenance personnel that threatened to effect aircraft readiness, reports the Air Force Times.
By the end of fiscal 2017, the service was short about 400 maintainers, well below the 4,000 number reported at the end of fiscal 2015, according to Air Force officials.
The service indicated it was about 3,400 maintainers short at the end of fiscal 2016.
It will still take about five to seven years before the new...
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