Air Force delays promotion board
Air Force leaders delayed the promotion board for captains in the 2005 year group by several months because of historically high retention rates combined with legal limits on the total number of officers, service officials announced Tuesday.
Flight delays piled up all across the country Monday as thousands of air traffic controllers were forced to take an unpaid day off because of federal budget cuts, providing the most visible impact yet of Congress and the White House's failure to agree on a long-term deficit-reduction plan.