Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Gerald R. Murray led a panel of command chiefs at AFA’s Air & Space Conference in Washington, D.C. One topic raised was whether the Air Force planned to link documented physical fitness levels to performance reports and, ultimately, promotion. The answer from Murray: Nothing is final but the service has a number of proposals under review. He says that staying fit is “a readiness issue for us, and we’re not going to back away from that.”
Amid NATO’s continued push to ramp up air defenses in Eastern Europe, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall swung by seven allied countries to boost relations last week, including those on Russia’s and Ukraine’s doorstep.