The innovative airmen of the 435th Munitions Squadron at Ramstein AB, Germany, are re-organizing to ensure their dwindling numbers are fully trained to maintain a wider assortment of weapons. The unit’s airmen earlier this year saved the Air Force mega-bucks by undertaking the transfer of motors from old advanced-medium-range air-to-air missiles themselves. Now the unit has lost half its workforce, so the remaining airmen pioneered the new unit structure, according to a 43rd MUNS release.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
