SSgt. Paul Haigh with the 15th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, expects to be the first of Hickam’s C-17 aircrew members to reach 1,000 flying hours. He expects to hit the 1,000-hour mark this week on a mission that will take his aircraft from Hawaii to Japan, from Japan to Alaska, from Alaska to Nevada, and Nevada back to Hickam. That’s a lot of hours for one person in a unit that received its first C-17 in February 2006.
Lt. Gen. Stephen L. Davis, the Department of the Air Force’s top internal watchdog, has been nominated to lead Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the service’s bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.