{"id":150672,"date":"2024-11-22T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-chief-thinks-air-force-needs-more-air-force\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:00:13","slug":"why-the-usaf-chief-thinks-the-air-force-needs-more-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=150672","title":{"rendered":"Why The USAF Chief Thinks The Air Force Needs &#8220;More Air Force&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 11, 2024, the Department of the Air Force unveiled a $217.5 billion 2025 budget for the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> (USAF) and the United States Space Force (USSF). This is an increase of $2.4 billion, or 1.1%, compared to this year&#8217;s budget. The USAF and USSF claim that the increase is needed to maintain the servicer&#8217;s readiness to respond to current threats, fill gaps, and manage increasing risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USAF wants Congress to approve a $217.5 billion budget for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,412,909,1328],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-150672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-military","category-money","category-united-states-air-force","tag-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150673,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150672\/revisions\/150673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}