Bringing Balance to the Force

Some Air Force career fields are overstaffed, while others are experiencing shortages. In an effort to balance the force, officials asked more than 3,000 airmen in overstaffed fields to submit their choices of shortage career fields they would most like to retrain into. Three hundred of them were allowed to switch or leave the service. But that wasn't enough to solve the problem. So now, nearly 800 airmen will be involuntarily retrained, the service reports.