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Old September 18th 04, 03:54 AM
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Air Force Chief Sounds Off as Service Birthday Approaches

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2...004091608.html.

{EXCERPT} By Kathleen T. Rhem American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2004 -- The threat of terrorism is greater than
any threat this nation has ever faced, Air Force Chief of Staff John
P. Jumper said. And he believes today's airmen are up to the
challenge.

The threat of terrorism is "greater than Nazism, greater than
communism," Jumper said in a recent interview with American Forces
Press Service and the Pentagon channel. "This threat that we have of
terrorist zealots is the most dangerous because these are people who
care nothing about life. They care nothing about our lives, for sure,
and they care nothing about their own lives."

But, today's airmen make up the best Air Force the world has ever
seen, and they are the best equipped to battle this threat, Jumper
said. As his service prepares to celebrate its 57th anniversary as an
independent military service Sept. 18, Jumper spoke about what makes
the U.S. Air Force so mighty.

The service is leveraging technology in new and exciting ways.
Specifically, the Air Force is making leaps and bounds in leveraging
space technology. It is also working with the other services in areas
unheard of just a decade ago.

The general said surveillance and network capabilities were showcased
in Operation Iraqi Freedom. During a dust storm while the main
fighting was still going on last year, military leaders saw the Air
Force's ability to track Iraqi forces as they tried to send
reinforcements to ground forces outside of Baghdad.

He said the military services aren't operating as jointly as well as
they hope to be, but they've come a long way. "It's in much more of a
cooperative spirit than it was even in (1990's Operation) Desert
Storm," he said.

Jumper recalled how air-tasking orders had to be flown from the Air
Force out to Navy carriers every day during Desert Storm. "We didn't
even have the simple communication that it would take to transmit the
air-tasking orders out to the carriers by radio or telephone," he
said.

But for all the advancements in technology and doctrine, the thing
that makes the Air Force -- and all the U.S. military services --
strong is the people who raise their right hand and commit themselves
to a cause greater than themselves, he said.

In a message directed to airmen everywhere, Jumper said they should be
proud when they look in the mirror every morning.

"You are the greatest airmen on our planet," he said. "You've earned
the respect of everybody throughout the world. Saddam Hussein buried
his airplanes in the sand rather than come up and face the air power
of the United States of America."

Biography: Gen. John P. Jumper [

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official website of the U.S. Department of Defense, at

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2...004091608.html.

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Otis Willie
Associate Librarian
The American War Library
http://www.americanwarlibrary.com
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