Air Force to Cut Over 9,000 People

For a change, I’m glad I’m not in the Air Force:

The Air Force unveiled the much-anticipated details of the fiscal 2007 portion of its multiyear ¿force-shaping¿ plan Wednesday, announcing that 8,000 officers, mostly those in midgrades, must be eliminated from the roster by Sept. 29, 2007.

Enlisted personnel are safe from the chopping block, but 1,227 noncommissioned officers will be given a choice: switch career fields or get out of the service.