Just as the Air Force is switching up how it packages troops for deployments, the Space Force will implement a new system called “combat squadrons”—though with most of its forces deployed in place, the change will largely be divvying up operations and readiness functions, leaders ...
The Air Force still needs more than 300 combat squadrons, but the biggest priority is not number of squadrons but capability, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said Sept. 22. He also suggested the records set by the Next Generation Air Dominance prototype ...