Responding to a major shift in their references and a new emerging balance, aviators have been able to rely on the time-honoured values of their service and are on course towards the assigned objective: a 50,000-strong Air Force, focused on its core trade—aeronautical expertise—and committed to operating in the joint and inter-allied dimensions. To fulfil its missions, the Air Force will, more than ever, put the emphasis on its human resources policy: it must personalize management and nurture the cohesion of the aeronautical military community, as well as making sure that it hands down its most precious legacy: service ethos and identity.