AF Chief of Staff Moseley: Air Force increasingly strained by Iraq ground war

A Senior Airman removes his M-240B machine gun from the turret of a Humvee after completing a police transition team mission in Baghdad last month.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's bolstering of its ground forces in Baghdad by borrowing money and people from its sister services is further straining an already tightly stretched Air Force, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley said Tuesday.

The result, Moseley said, is people being assigned to jobs they weren't trained for. He cited Air Force airmen being used to guard prisoners and serve as drivers and cited one instance in which a female Air Force surgeon was assigned typing chores...

Moseley said that over 20,000 airmen have been assigned into roles outside their specialties.

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