Col. Susan Desjardins, currently commander of the 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB, S.C., will replace Brig. Gen. Johnny Weida as the commandant of cadets at the US Air Force Academy. Weida, who has been at the academy only a year and was cleared, just a month ago, of a charge that he had attempted to proselytize cadets, has been reassigned as the director of capability integration and transformation at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Air Force leaders have recommended Weida for promotion to major general. Desjardins, who is being nominated for promotion to brigadier general, graduated from the academy in 1980—the first class to include women.
As near-peer adversaries have increased their reach and lethality, the U.S. Air Force is accelerating the tanker fleet recapitalization and aggressively pulling forward the Next Generation Aerial Refueling System (NGAS) to meet the threat. Globally operating the KC-46A has advanced mission...