The Air Force budget is comprised of four main areas, all in desperate need of additional funding: personnel (force structure), readiness, infrastructure (sustainability), and procurement (modernization). Personnel costs (pay and benefits) have risen 57 percent over the last 10 years while personnel end strength decreased 8 percent. Operating (readiness) costs have increased 179 percent over the last 10 years, even though the aircraft inventory was reduced more than 2,500 airframes. This edition of the Journal presents two featured articles: "Air Mobility Command: Improving Aircraft Maintenance Team Recovery Processes" and "Future Air Bases: Power Patches or Military Communities." In "Air Mobility Command: Improving Aircraft Maintenance Team Recovery Processes," the author discusses Air Mobility Command's (AMC) strategic airlift role, identifies AMC's maintenance recovery team (MRT) process, analyzes AMC's historical MRT data for specific improvement opportunities, and where possible, recommends improvements that will lead to an increase in the efficiency of AMC's MRT process.
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