The Chief of the Air Force Reserve, Lt. Gen. John Bradley, told lawmakers at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing that the reserve components do not have the force management tools in place to offset end strength reductions predicated by BRAC 2005 decisions. “In the ’90s when we went through base closure actions, we had some tools—Reserve Transition Assistance Programs—that helped us with people who had served us well and faithfully but just couldn’t move several thousands of miles, or hundreds of miles, to a new unit,” explained Bradley. He added, “We’ll try to accommodate them … but some people just can’t continue.”
United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket is slated to fly its second national security mission in February—nearly six months after its first operational launch and almost a year after it was certified to fly military payloads for the Space Force.
