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Cost, Breakdown of Proposed Additional Air Force Squadrons Yet to Be Determined

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Cost, Breakdown of Proposed Additional Air Force Squadrons Yet to Be Determined
Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson delivers her "Air Force We Need" speech during the Air Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, Sept. 17, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. DeAndre Curtiss)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The Air Force has yet to determine the cost of boosting its 312 operational squadrons to 386, and the breakdown of aircraft in each proposed squadron, service leadership said Tuesday.Service Secretary Heather Wilson revealed Monday that the service required nearly a 25 percent increase in operational squadrons by 2030 in order to meet all of the mission requirements laid out in the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) (Defense Daily, Sept. 17). That number was…

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