Over Iraq
While the Army fights on in Iraq, the Air Force is resuming its peacetime schedule and trimming back its size.
Continuing ground operations in Iraq are taking a toll on the Army. But with the skies secured,
Chief of Staff John Jumper (right) wants to take a more disciplined approach to staffing the Air Force.
After more than a decade spent grounding Saddam Hussein's planes in the no-fly zones, then meeting a demanding schedule during the Iraq war, most of the Air Force has returned to normal rotations: Service members will deploy for 90 days and then return home for a year of training. Just before the war began last March, the Air Force had scrapped that schedule. At the height of operations, 54,995 Air Force personnel were deployed, nearly eight times the 7,250 airmen who had patrolled the no-flight zones over northern and southern Iraq before the war. Today, the Air Force has 4,000 people serving in Iraq, most flying cargo planes or maintaining air bases.
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