We reported earlier that TSgt. Ruben Vazquez, a medical technician with the 36th Medical Operations Squadron at Andersen AFB, Guam, had earned a Bronze Star for heroic actions while deployed to Iraq. Now, he’s gotten an “instant promotion” to master sergeant, delivered by Gen. Paul Hester, commander of Pacific Air Forces.
The Air Force’s airlift fleet is in desperate need of modern connectivity, spare parts, and other innovations to keep going amid growing demand and modernization plans still in their infancy, according to a former senior leader and a new research paper from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
