According to Gen. Michael Moseley, Air Force Chief of Staff, most of the explosive ordnance disposal work being done in Afghanistan and Iraq is accomplished by Air Force and Navy EOD specialists. And, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne told lawmakers at a House Appropriations panel hearing last week that USAF “is losing” EOD airmen. He called it a “stress career field.”
Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held meetings with defense leaders from the Philippines, Japan, and South Korea during a trip to the Indo-Pacific this week.