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Jumper: Air Force to reduce personnel. (Washington Pulse).


The U.S. Air Force is bracing bracing,
n a resistance to the horizontal components of masticatory force.
 for personnel cuts this year. The plan is to I "take all of the slots off the books not recorded in the official financial records of a business; - usually used of payments made in cash to fraudulently avoid payment of taxes or of employment benefits.

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 that the money already went away for," said Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper The simplest form of an on/off switch. It is just a tiny, plastic-covered metal block, which is pushed onto two pins to close that circuit. It is used to select a myriad of functions on a printed circuit board or on a peripheral device. .

Jumper explained that the funding for those positions has already been reduced, but "we have failed to take the people away, or take those slots off the books." He said that 4,500 positions have not been accounted for and need to be slashed slash  
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v.tr.
1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes: slash a path through the underbrush.

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Under an ongoing personnel study, the service is trying to identify jobs that could be done by civilians. "We have gone outside the Air Force and we have found there are 12,000 airmen out there that are doing things that one could legitimately question whether you need to have that uniform on to do that job or not.

The service is trying to determine how many of those people need to be put back into the operational force.
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Author:Book, Elizabeth G.
Publication:National Defense
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2003
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