Forty training sergeants, 10 academic majors among Air Force Academy budget cuts

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Basic Cadet Logan Coffey, center, and fellow basics from Agressor Squadron, work together to erect a tent on arrival at Jacks Valley on the Air Force Academy Monday, July 16, 2012. With the arrival in Jacks Valley Basic Cadets begin the next phase of Basic Cadet Training.

Forty training sergeants, 10 academic majors among Air Force Academy budget cuts
By Tom Roeder Updated: March 5, 2014 at 5:38 am • Published: March 4, 2014 | 3:20 pm

The Air Force Academy plans to cut a third of the sergeants who oversee military training and cadet discipline as part of an austerity plan that will carve 3 percent from its workforce and eliminate 10 academic majors at the school.

The academy provided a detailed budget look, while other bases across the region declined to talk in specifics as the Pentagon unveiled its full 2015 budget proposal.

The academy plans, part of a Pentagon move to cut $900 billion in spending over a decade, didn't lead to a reduction in the 4,000-member cadet wing or the elimination of sports teams. The academy discussed the cuts Monday in advance of a planned Pentagon address on military spending.

"We're at a very historic inflection point in funding at the Pentagon after 13 years of operations overseas," academy superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson told reporters in a Monday press briefing.