The head of the Department of the Air Force's recruiting efforts, who has overseen the service's turnaround from missing its ...

As expected, the Air Force met its recruiting targets this year. The service said Monday it achieved 100% of its annual recruitment goal three months ahead of schedule. To date, the Air Force and ...

“We believe the actual retrofit of that aircraft is probably less than $400 million,” Meink told the House Armed Services Committee, noting the Air Force had already accounted for spare parts.

Pricey ticket. According to Kenneth Walsh, author of “Air Force One: A History of Presidents and Their Planes,” the cost to operate presidential aircraft in the 1950s was roughly $348 per hour.