President Barack Obama has nominated Gen. Paul Selva to be commander of US Transportation Command at Scott AFB, Ill., according to a Feb. 7 release. Selva, who has served as commander of Air Mobility Command since November 2012, will replace Gen. William Fraser, who is retiring in June. Selva is a command pilot with more than 3,100 hours in the C-5, C-17A, C-141B, KC-10, KC-135, and the T-37.
While the Pentagon is halfway through its review of the Air Force’s new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program in the wake of “critical” cost and schedule overruns, the service has declared a similar issue for the helicopters meant to provide security and transport across those ICBM fields. The Air Force recently…