Mark Brandon Chopper Read (17 November 1954 â 9 October 2013) was an Australian criminal and author. Read wrote a series of semi-autobiographical and fictional crime novels.arly life [edit]. Read was born on 17 November 1954 to a former army father and a mother who was a devout Seventh-day Adventist. He was placed in a children's home for the first five years of his life.
The Air Force began fiscal 2014 with 330,700 active-duty airmen, and by Nov. 6, that number had dropped to 316,500. The 2015 levels of 312,980 are the lowest the service has ever had, except for 1947, its first year in existence, when it had 305,827 airmen.
This graph shows the total military personnel of the U.S. Air Force for fiscal years 2015 and estimated personnel for FY 2016 & 2017, by rank. In fiscal year 2017, there will be 12 Generals serving the Air Force. In 2014, there was just over 21,900 captains in the U.S. Air Force and eleven generals.