{"id":42796,"date":"2024-05-13T17:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T07:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-tough-responsible-decisions-2025-budget\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T07:10:42","slug":"the-us-air-forces-tough-but-responsible-decisions-for-2025-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=42796","title":{"rendered":"The US Air Force&#8217;s &#8220;Tough But Responsible&#8221; Decisions For 2025 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The Department of Defense is asking for a modest 1.1% increase in spending for the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">Air Force<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/comptroller.defense.gov\/Portals\/45\/Documents\/defbudget\/FY2025\/FY2025_Budget_Request_Overview_Book.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Fiscal Year 2025<\/a>, but this budget comes with some difficult decisions. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III recently stated that the budget is tough but also responsible, as the Air Force doesn&#8217;t have the resources to pursue everything it would like. The budget provides more funding and pay raises for its airmen. Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-fleet-shrinking-or-growing\/\">the Air Force is looking to ax dozens of older F-15s, F-16s, A-10s, and even non-combat-worthy F-22s<\/a> in an effort to focus on fifthand sixth-generation aircraft.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force is making hard decisions in its FY 2025 budget balancing procurement with divestments and the needs of its airmen.<\/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":[1258,396,412,9128,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-military","category-pentagon","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42796","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=42796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42925,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42796\/revisions\/42925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}