{"id":24957,"date":"2019-11-17T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T17:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=24957"},"modified":"2019-11-06T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:03:46","slug":"u-s-air-force-as-an-employee-welfare-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/17\/u-s-air-force-as-an-employee-welfare-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Air Force as an employee welfare enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avweb.com\/aviation-news\/military-aviation\/barrett-sworn-in-as-secretary-of-the-air-force\/\">&#8220;Barrett Sworn In As Secretary Of The Air Force&#8221;<\/a> (AVweb):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As Secretary of the Air Force, Barrett is responsible for Department of the Air Force affairs including \u201corganizing, training, equipping and providing for the welfare of 685,000 active duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian Airmen and their families,\u201d along with overseeing the Air Force\u2019s $205 billion annual budget, directing strategy and policy development, risk management, weapons acquisition, technology investments and human resource management. \u201cThe Airmen who wear our nation\u2019s uniform are our greatest asset and treasure,\u201d she said in her remarks following the swearing-in. <strong>\u201cWe have no greater charge than to develop and care for them and their families.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as on the Air Force base where our flight school operates, there is no message about defeating our enemies. It is all about the employees!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about the previous Air Force Secretary? Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/airman.dodlive.mil\/2019\/05\/30\/secaf-heather-wilson\/\">an interview with Heather Wilson<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Wilson said her responsibilities as SecAF were broader than those of any other executive position she held\u2026<strong>she was obligated to the welfare of 685,000 Total Force Airmen and their families<\/strong>, and the oversight of a $138 billion annual budget. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>(Separately, if Donald Trump is hostile to Americans who identify as &#8220;women&#8221;, as his opponents claim, why did he nominate two such individuals in succession to this job?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Barrett Sworn In As Secretary Of The Air Force&#8221; (AVweb): As Secretary of the Air Force, Barrett is responsible for Department of the Air Force affairs including \u201corganizing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Air Force as an employee welfare enterprise - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/17\/u-s-air-force-as-an-employee-welfare-enterprise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U.S. Air Force as an employee welfare enterprise - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;Barrett Sworn In As Secretary Of The Air Force&#8221; 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