Spears to Take No. 2 Spot at SOUTHCOM: Air Force Maj. Gen. Glenn F. Spears has been named to become deputy commander of US Southern Command, headquartered in Miami. Spears, who is the Air Staff’s director of force management policy, graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1978 and is a command pilot with more than 3,400 flying hours in various aircraft, including B-1B, B-52, KC-135, and MC-130H. He will replace Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard A. Mentemeyer, who plans to retire July 1.
Deliveries of Boeing’s troubled KC-46A Pegasus tanker to the U.S. Air Force have restarted after a roughly three-month pause, the aerospace giant announced. Two KC-46s were delivered to Travis Air Force Base, Calif., May 16, after a pause due to cracks in multiple brand-new aircraft that led the USAF to…