Col. Timothy Vigil, who is 12th Air Force’s Warfighting Headquarters special assistant, gave his new boss—Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, commander of 12th Air Force—and the head of US Southern Command, Army Gen. John Craddock, a tour of 12th Air Force’s new Combined Air and Space Operations Center at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. The new CAOC, which was originally expected to open this month, is still under construction, but officials expect it to be up and running in November. It will join five other operational “Falconer” centers around the world.
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.