The 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia runs an around-the-clock operation to generate combat sorties for the war on terror, reports SrA. Erik Hofmeyer. Whether the work is building bombs or loading cargo aircraft, or maintaining the much-in-demand RC-135 Rivet Joint, the airmen deployed from various bases to this forward location are employed in shifts 24-hours per day in an unending cycle.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3