{"id":284783,"date":"2024-04-02T06:48:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T06:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=284783"},"modified":"2024-04-04T06:17:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:17:57","slug":"air-force-reducing-size-by-8000-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=284783","title":{"rendered":"Air Force reducing size by 8,000 troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Timothy Frudd \u2013 American Military News March 15, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force has proposed a reduction in its planned troop total in the military branch\u2019s 2025 budget request to Congress. After failing to reach its recruitment goals last year, the Air Force has proposed reducing its size by 8,000 troops in Fiscal Year 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2024\/03\/11\/air-force-reduces-end-strength-goal-budget-proposal-bets-big-recruitment-bonuses.html\">According to<\/a> Military.com, Air Force officials told reporters during a roundtable last week that it is targeting a total of 504,000 troops for Fiscal year 2025, compared to the 2024 budget request\u2019s end strength projection of 512,000 troops<\/p>\n<p>Military.com reported that the 2025 budget request\u2019s reduction of total airmen in the military service comes after the Air Force failed to reach its recruitment goals last year for the first time in over 20 years. According to Military.com, the Air Force was 10% short of its active-duty recruitment goals in Fiscal Year 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the service\u2019s original 2024 end strength number, Maj. Gen. Michael Greiner, the deputy assistant secretary for the Air Force budget, said, \u201cThat was probably assuming some optimistic growth that just given the recruiting challenges that we\u2019ve experienced the last year was unrealistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2024\/03\/air-force-reducing-size-by-8000-troops\/\">Continues&#8230;\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t a matter of choice. The proposed reduction in personnel has been forced upon the U.S. Air Force by necessity. Without a draft the U.S. simply cannot recruit enough troops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284793,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284783\/revisions\/284793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}