The Changing Character of Air Force Manpower, 1958-1959, is an account or the Air Force's efforts to fit its personnel to its changing weapons. This meant a search for higher quality of abilities in both its military and civilian manpower and a quest tor improved manpower controls. The education for future careers in the Air Force involved new concepts in all phases of training. And the problems or the reserve forces required growing attention from the Air Force. Prepared as a chapter for inclusion in the History of Headquarters USAF, Fiscal Year 1959, this study is being issued separately to make it more readily available throughout the Air Force. Like all the studies produced by the USAF Historical Division Liaison Office, it is presented with an invitation for suggestions from its readers.