Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Gen. Mark Walsh told FoxNews “Defcon 3” that fighting in Afghanistan and against ISIS has stretched his service “pretty thin.”
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“For the Air Force specifically, the individual and unit readiness to fight a full-scale conflict is not where it should be,” said Walsh. “We’ve had a little problem with that over the past 15 years as we’ve focused on a … conflict in the Middle East and the resources we’ve diverted to do that.”