Near the end of the article is this statement by Moseley:"So while the Air Force has been willing to provide ground personnel, "the real question is: How long do you do this?" Moseley says. "When do we reach a point that we say we don't have excess people to do this? And we're getting close."

I recently read some statistics regarding personnel deployment to Iraq. Less than 7% of the Air Force is currently deployed!! While we certainly have a few that have been to the sandbox many times for long periods, we certainly aren't anywhere the near the breaking point or even close to the strain on the Army and Marines. It seems like the Army and Marines have refocused their training to account for the small wars environment. Perhaps its time the Air Force did the same.

The newly proposed initiative for a new combat skills facility to train airmen is a right step. However, we to think about how we can absorb some of the missions for the Army and Marines. I don't have the complete solution, but it would seem that using AF personnel in more support roles would be a start. Couldn't AF finance troops, transport troops, jags, etc. fill in for some soldiers and Marines that could be shifted to infantry-type roles?