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. military is maintaining a beefed-up presence in the Middle East, including fighters and air defense assets, following the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities June 22 and subsequent retaliation by the Iranians against Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.