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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Jumper reflects on challenges facing Air Force
By Staff Sgt. C. TODD
LOPEZ
Air Force Print News
WASHINGTON - The
departing chief of staff of the
Air Force discussed his vision
of the future force, Base
Realignment and Closure and
the challenges he faced as the
service’s senior military
leader recently.
Gen. John P Jumper said
he believes the F/A-22 Raptor
is the future of the Air Force,
and that it was his job as chief
of staff to make decisions that
affect the service’s future.
“The decisions we make
today will deliver the force
that three or four successors
of mine will have to live
with,” he said. “Look at the
F/A-22 in particular. I don’t
really have to look further
than the short term to see
what is being delivered today
out there around the world.”
What is being delivered, the
general said, are Soviet
designed, high-tech weapons
systems such as surface-to-air
missiles and aircraft designed
to fight the Cold War. Those
weapons systems are still in
production today and are in
the hands of America’s ene
mies. It is that unchecked
proliferation of weapons sys
tems that could one day
threaten America’s air superi
ority, he said.
“Everybody says the United
States can’t be challenged,
but we see airplanes and SAM
that can challenge the best of
what we have today,” he said.
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There were no injuries
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to 35 years of age, with a
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The state Department of
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who lives in Perry, is one of
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Jones and Dane Bishop,
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“It has to be paid attention
to.”
Also part of the future may
be a change in the air mobili
ty concept of operations, the
general said. The numbers of
aircraft like the C-5 Galaxy
and C-17 Globemaster 111
may be lessened if replace
ments for the KC-135
Stratotanker are diverse
enough to double up as cargo
planes when needed.
“We might be able to adjust
the number of C-17s and C-5s
in the fleet if we have a tanker
force able to absorb the surge
in air mobility requirements,”
he said. “You might be able to
do a very good job of that if
you adjust this blend of small
er tankers and larger tankers
in favor of the larger tanker. I
think the analysis of alterna
tives will support that.”
The analysis of alternatives
for the KC-135 tanker
replacement, soon to be
released, come after much
controversy on Capitol Hill
involving both inappropriate
contracting activities and
misinterpretation of congres
sional authorizations. Those
issues have been mostly
resolved, and the Air Force is
on its way to finding replace
ments for the aging KC-135
tanker fleet, the general said.
“In the tanker business, the
person found guilty is now in
jail and that is the standard,”
Jumper said. “We need to get
on with the tanker issue. Now
that we have gone through
the AOA, and it is about to be
plies they will need while
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Replacing aircraft like the
KC-135 and bringing in new
fighter aircraft like the F/A
--22 and the F-35 Joint Strike
Fighter are part of a recapi
talization process for the Air
Force’s aircraft fleet. General
Jumper said recapitalization
is his top concern for the Air
Force.
“The thing that worries me
the most is the recapitaliza
tion of our force,” he said.
“We are now facing problems
we have never seen before
because of aging aircraft.”
Aging aircraft problems
include the center wing box
on the C-130 Hercules, engine
attachment strut problems
with the KC-135, and struc
tural fatigue on F-15 Eagles
that result in flight restric
tions.
“We are having to deal with
these aging airplane issues
with an increasing amount of
the budget, and we need to
get on with recapitalizing,”
Jumper said.
The U.S. Air Force Academy
has seen much controversy in
the past few years. The acade
my first became embroiled in
issues involving sexual
harassment in early 2003.
Through an internal investi
gation, the Air Force
researched the problem and
then developed a solution,
called the Agenda for Change.
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root, but it is certainly an
agenda that is going to take a
while before we are able to
feel the full effects of it,” the
general said.
He also said the Air Force
and the academy are not
unique in having problems
like those at the academy. He
said those problems affect
everyone.
Recently the 2005 BRAC
Commission voted to approve
or disapprove each of the
Department of Defense rec
ommendations for realign
ment and closure. The com
mittee voted to approve about
70 percent of the Air Force
recommendations. Jumper
said he does not believe the
committee’s decisions hurt
the service’s force reshaping
efforts.
“This is truly a reshaping
BRAC,” Jumper said. “I don’t
think anybody expected we’d
get 100 percent. I don’t look it
as a severe blow; I look at it as
getting most of what we asked
for. We got about 70 percent of
what we asked for, and that is
considerable.”
The general also pointed
out that the BRAC process is
still not complete. The presi
dent and Congress must still
approve recommendations by
the BRAC Commission.
Jumper has served as the
Air Force’s senior-most officer
since early September 2001.
He took the office just days
before the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks that destroyed a large
wedge of the Pentagon and
the World Trade Center tow-
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The general said, early on,
he never intended to rise to
the level of chief of staff of the
Air Force. But looking back,
he remembers all those who
put him there.
“Nobody gets to where they
are without the help of hun
dreds of people along the
way,” he said. “Every step of
the way, every crew chief I
had, every flight commander I
had, every wingman I had
along the way were all a big
part of where I was able to get
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have the greatest enlisted
force in the world, and they
make things run and make
the rest of us look good.”
Gen. T. Michael Moseley,
currently the vice chief of
staff of the Air Force,
assumed the role of chief of
staff of the Air Force during a
Friday ceremony at Andrews
Air Force Base, Md. Jumper
will retire Nov. 1 after 39
years of service to the Air
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