I'm going to ask the commander of the air force to elaborate on specific plans. I would like to frame the answer by talking about the worldwide shortage of pilots. There is a demographic change going on, and there is a demand for pilots in the public sector, in armed forces and in the private sector around the world, and we are experiencing a shortage of pilots.
Since 2016, when this demographic change really began to take effect, we have lost more pilots than normal. There is always a normal attrition to industry and to other things, but there has been a significant change in that attrition over the last two years.
We are doing a number of things as a result of “Strong, Secure, Engaged” to improve life for families in order to make it easier to stay in the forces. We ask a lot of our families. We ask a lot of our military members. Our retention strategies include a number of things for families to make life on the base better, better incentives to move, better remuneration, and then, in addition, there are recruitment and retention strategies for the air force itself, which I will ask General Meinzinger to respond to.