President Trump pledges to grow the Air Force

[war&peace]

Newly sworn into office, President Donald J. Trump on Friday pledged to grow the size of the Air Force and "rebuild the American military."

The official White House website was updated with information about some of the new administration's priorities. One issue paper, titled "America First Foreign Policy," lamented "our Air Force is roughly one-third smaller than in 1991." Trump, it says, "is committed to reversing this trend, because he knows that our military dominance must be unquestioned."





Military Times
Trump takes over as commander in chief, promising to restore military strength
In the document, Trump also pledged to develop a "state-of-the-art missile defense system" to protect against nations like Iran and North Korea, and to improve overall military readiness.

The Air Force has shrunk from more than 510,000 active duty airmen in fiscal 1991 to about 317,000 at the end of 2016 — a drop of nearly 38 percent over those 25 years.

After Trump's election in November, Air Force officials said they hoped to get the service up to 350,000 airmen by the year 2024, and focus most of their growth on the maintenance, nuclear, cyber and space career fields. The Air Force also wants to grow its ranks of drone pilots, who are in great demand as combatant commanders rely more and more on the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance unmanned aircraft provide.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein and other top brass have been speaking with Trump's transition team about the need for more airmen.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/articles/donald-trump-air-force

 

[Dawood Ibrahim]

Do you think is he aimming at someone ?

 

[Mo12]

Do you think is he aimming at someone ?

sounds stupid, usa has enough to take on russia and china alone and im not even mentioning NATO countries too.

 

[Rashid Mahmood]

https://twitter.com/x/status/822502060717314048

 

[Lucky Breeze]

 

[Penguin]

Newly sworn into office, President Donald J. Trump on Friday pledged to grow the size of the Air Force and "rebuild the American military."

The official White House website was updated with information about some of the new administration's priorities. One issue paper, titled "America First Foreign Policy," lamented "our Air Force is roughly one-third smaller than in 1991." Trump, it says, "is committed to reversing this trend, because he knows that our military dominance must be unquestioned."





Military Times
Trump takes over as commander in chief, promising to restore military strength
In the document, Trump also pledged to develop a "state-of-the-art missile defense system" to protect against nations like Iran and North Korea, and to improve overall military readiness.

The Air Force has shrunk from more than 510,000 active duty airmen in fiscal 1991 to about 317,000 at the end of 2016 — a drop of nearly 38 percent over those 25 years.

After Trump's election in November, Air Force officials said they hoped to get the service up to 350,000 airmen by the year 2024, and focus most of their growth on the maintenance, nuclear, cyber and space career fields. The Air Force also wants to grow its ranks of drone pilots, who are in great demand as combatant commanders rely more and more on the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance unmanned aircraft provide.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein and other top brass have been speaking with Trump's transition team about the need for more airmen.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/articles/donald-trump-air-force

Compare to recent McCain / Senate Committee on Armed Services white paper.
https://defence.pk/threads/mccain-p...-boost-over-next-5-years.473045/#post-9117502

 

[James David]

Its about time!!!

 

[Penguin]

Its about time!!!

Which president respected the military so much that he sent the troop on such great and well-motivated missions as invading Iraq?

 

[wali87]

As if it isn't big enough already

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Its about time!!!

I have never served in the military but if I had - I would be more inclined to respect a President who had also served instead of giving gobsh*te. United States for the first time since 1945 faces real threat (Soviet threat was only military and with it's creaking economy it was going to lose out in the long run) from a country that has burgeoning economy. There is every reason to think that Chinese economy will keep rising. Taiwan (ethnic Chinese) have a per capita of $22k with China at $8. If China even reaches the same level as Taiwanese per capita which is no big deal then the GDP of CHina would be nearly triple of USA. This is the future. Unless history came to end in 2000 and America will remain in perpetuity NO.1 which would go against the tide of history, Even Roman Empire went down and if you look at it's demise it was because it got exhausted and the economy could NOT sustain ever rising military costs.

Maybe America needs to introspect and invest in infrastructure etc instead of even more on non productive military with ever increasing list of foreign wars. Just a thought.

 

[James David]

@Penguin mistakes has been made in the past by idiots we put in the office. Here is the President when he was in uniform...

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!

Which president respected the military so much that he sent the troop on such great and well-motivated missions as invading Iraq?

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Haider Butt sais Donhald Trumpu zinda bad .....just so President Trump knows, he said call him left his number on the banner

 

[Lucky Breeze]

Haider Butt sais Donhald Trumpu zinda bad .....just so President Trump knows, he said call him left his number on the banner

Actually he is applying for US visa