ACC commander says forces are stressed

[unhappycamper]

ACC commander says forces are stressed
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, March 28, 2008

ARLINGTON, Va. — Personnel cuts and expanded air operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are straining the men and women of Air Combat Command, its leader, Gen. John Corley, said Thursday.

“We’re highly stressed,” Corley told reporters during a Washington press breakfast.

The Air Force is in the third year of a four-year project to reduce its active-duty force to 316,500 airmen to modernize an aging fleet.

Corley said he agrees the aging aircraft need updating, but there’s no question that, for Air Combat Command, “the reduction in terms of overall number of people (has) hurt.”

Adding to the pressure, he said, is ACC’s heavy participation in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=53649

[babylonsister]

1. That seems like an understatement. Poor troops, I can't even

imagine how they feel; they've been asked to do so much, with no end in sight. :(