Fighter Fleet Is Strained—and Bill Is Coming Due, ACC Chief Says

Air Force Times
The Air Force’s array of 48 fighter squadrons and nine attack squadrons are today being asked
to do the work of 60 squadrons, the head of Air Combat Command said. This is stretching the
fighter fleet thin, ACC head Gen. Mark Kelly said at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber conference—and,
in a major war, will become unsustainable.

— By Mark Hensch