, leading to depleted munitions stockpiles and calls to ramp up funding and weapons production.
As
the U.S. ramps up its campaign against the Islamist terror group in
Iraq and Syria, the Air Force is now "expending munitions faster than we
can replenish them," Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh said in a
statement.
"B-1s have dropped bombs in
record numbers. F-15Es are in the fight because they are able to employ
a wide range of weapons and do so with great flexibility. We need the
funding in place to ensure we're prepared for the long fight," Welsh
said in the statement. "This is a critical need."
The
bombing campaign has left the U.S. Air Force with what an Air Force
official described as munitions depot stocks "below our desired
objective."
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