USAF Reserve's 442nd Fighter Wing Could Lose 101 Positions
Fiscal restructuring could cost maintenance workers their jobs and three aircraft.
WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, MO — The Air Force Reserve's 442nd Fighter Wing could lose 101 positions and three of its A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft, according to the Air Force's Fiscal 2010 force-structure realignment proposal released recently.
The force-structure realignment for Fiscal Year 2010 proposes a decrease of 90 part-time, or traditional reserve, positions, as well as 11 full-time, or air reserve technician, positions sometime after December 2009. The manpower cuts would accompany a decrease in aircraft for the wing from 24 to 21.
The 442nd Fighter Wing flies, maintains, and supports a squadron of A-10 attack aircraft used primarily for close-air support of combat ground forces and for combat search and rescue missions. The unit moved its A-10s to Whiteman in 1994.
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