Air Force announces Fiscal Year 2010 structure changes

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  • By Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs
  • Pentagon
WASHINGTON --  Today the U.S. Air Force announced its proposed force structure realignment for Fiscal Year 2010. It reflects adjustments which will provide unsurpassed Global Vigilance, Global Reach and Global Power ... to fly, fight and win in air, space and cyberspace - today and in the future, given available resources.

The Air Force plans to change manpower authorizations and retire some of its older aircraft, according to a fiscal 2010 force structure realignment announced June 25. 

"The force structure announcement reflects our best effort to meet the expanding Air Force mission areas and growing Joint demands," said Gen. Norton Schwartz, Air Force Chief of Staff.

The realignment supports the FY10 President's Budget Request. Unrelated to the FY 10 force structure realignment, the Air Force Reserve's end strength will grow from 67,400 to 69,500. This increase in manpower authorizations in FY 10 represents approximately 2,100 Airmen for emerging mission areas such as cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, unmanned aerial systems and the nuclear enterprise. 

The majority of Texas Air Force units were largely unaffected. But the 136th Texas Air National Guard, NAS JRB Ft Worth, is scheduled to lose four Guard authorizations.

Lackland Air Force Base's 433rd Airlift Wing, a unit equipped with C-5s, is scheduled to lose eight Active-Guard-Reserve (AGR) positions, but may gain nine Air Reserve Technicians (ARTs) as a result of regionalizing C-5 inspections and has an increase of one ART as a result of the Airlift Control Flight restructure.

"We've made some hard choices," General Schwartz said. "However, we believe this is the best overall design to meet America's national security needs and support to the Joint fight."

The Air Force outlined changes at 31 Air Force Reserve Command locations and said some of the numbers are subject to change. 

For more details about the FY10 Force Structure realignment visit http://www.af.mil or go directly to the Major Command or Air Force installation Public Affairs office.