Air Force officials reduce current accessions goal

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RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) --  Air Force officials here are reducing the service's current active-duty enlisted recruiting goal from 31,750 to 29,384 for the remainder of fiscal 2010.

This reduction is one of the measures the Air Force uses to manage force manning to meet authorized Air Force end-strength.

Force management is a continuous, dynamic process of monitoring the force and adjusting policies to create an appropriate manning balance within the force.

"Although the Air Force's enlisted accessions goal has been reduced, the Air Force is still hiring individuals to serve in more than 140 different specialties," said Brig. Gen. Alfred J. Stewart, the Air Force Recruiting Service commander. "There is an increased emphasis on hiring those individuals who are morally, mentally and physically qualified for some of the harder-to-fill career fields such as combat controllers, pararescue, special operations weather and explosive ordnance disposal."