US Transportation Command has extended Patriot Express flights throughout Japan for an additional year. They will continue to fly through Sept. 30, 2006, following a new agreement US Pacific Command reached with TRANSCOM.
The U.S. Air Force Academy took another step toward emerging from a senior leader shakeup this week with the selection of a new commandant of cadets—though it is still unclear who will be the Academy’s next superintendent with the impending retirement of Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind.