The Air Force’s latest accounting of its personnel shows that, as of Aug. 31, the service has 346,166 active duty members, comprising 71,691 officers and 274,475 enlisted airmen. Its civilian force has 145,620 employees, the majority (76.1 percent) of whom are “white collar” employees. Women make up nearly 20 percent of the service’s active duty airmen. For more raw numbers, read here.
Clearing jungle and laying asphalt in tropical heat may not sound like fun to most people, but it’s a way of life for Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (RED HORSE) Airmen, who have spent the past year or so restoring World War II-era airfields on the Pacific…