
The Air Force’s chief of staff isn’t considering using stop loss, an order preventing airmen from moving to inactive status, to help stem the tide of pilots leaving the service.“It’s a tool in the secretary’s tool bag to use when we’re in a state of emergency,” Air Force Gen. David Goldfein said Wednesday about “stop loss.” “We’re not in a state of emergency.”Goldfein linked the pilot shortage to the decline in readiness over the last few years. He said pilots…