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Air Force Recruiting Specialists
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October 31, 2006
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WASHINGTON - The Air Force is struggling to recruit thousands of linguists, health care professionals and rescue airmen at the same time it is slashing 40,000 other jobs.
With a $22 million advertising campaign that includes splashy television commercials but focuses largely on the Internet, the service is trying to tell young people that the Air Force is still looking to fill critical jobs, despite its shrinking size.
The problem, said Brig. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, commander of the Air Force's recruiting service, is that many people have heard the Air Force is chopping thousands of jobs.
"We are hiring. We are absolutely hiring," she said in an Associated Press interview.
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