id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1328 United States Air Force - Wikipedia .html text/html 15553 1695 65 Initially formed as a part of the United States Army on 1 August 1907, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the U.S. Armed Forces on 18 September 1947 with the passing of the National Security Act of 1947. Because of budget constraints, the USAF planned to reduce the service's size from 360,000 active duty personnel to 316,000.[30] The size of the active duty force in 2007 was roughly 64% of that of what the USAF was at the end of the first Gulf War in 1991.[31] However, the reduction was ended at approximately 330,000 personnel in 2008 in order to meet the demand signal of combatant commanders and associated mission requirements.[30] These same constraints have seen a sharp reduction in flight hours for crew training since 2005[32] and the Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower and Personnel directing Airmen's Time Assessments.[33] Main article: List of active United States Air Force aircraft squadrons ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1328.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1328.txt