Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a short town hall meeting at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, Friday, to say thank you to the troops. Pace told the airmen, soldiers, sailors, and coast guardsmen in the audience, “I want to say thanks to you for all you do and all you have done, and unfortunately, some of the things that we are going to have to ask you to do in the future.”
The Air Force has dispatched an element of its Natural Disaster Recovery Team to Guam in the wake of Super Typhoon Mawar, which has caused widespread damage on the island and at Andersen Air Force Base. The team will assess the damage and put together a recovery cost estimate for…