Air Force to replace enlisted historians with civilians

(EXCERPT) , By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition,
Wednesday, October 22, 2003

The Air Force active-duty historian is a dying breed.

The service decided this year to replace its enlisted historians with
civilian ones, said Chief Master Sgt. Walt Grudzinskas, assistant for
the Manpower, Readiness and Military Personnel Office of Air Force
History in Washington D.C.

The move is aimed at re-allocating resources from support to war
fighting, he said.

The Air Force will distribute the positions formerly allocated to
historians among stressed, “combat-ready” career fields. “The Air
Force has an end strength and they have to remain within that,”
Grudzinskas said.

The service has 120 authorizations or billets for historians, six of
them officer-level.

The change will begin in fiscal 2005, when a three-year phase-out
period begins, with one-third of enlisted historians either converting
to another career field or retiring, annually.

Some active-d...

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