Air Mobility Command has selected CMSgt. Joseph E. Barron Jr. as its next command chief. Barron, who will join AMC in April, currently is the Command Chief Master Sergeant. of 2d Air Force at Keesler AFB, Miss. He has served with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and Air Force Recruiting Service, as well as command chief of the Air Warfare Center.
The U.S. sent Air Force F-16s over central Syria in a show of force following the Dec. 13 killing of two U.S. Army Soldiers and one American civilian interpreter by a gunman linked to the Islamic State group.

