CMSgt. Craig Adams, who’s been US Air Forces in Europe’s command chief since September 2012, is moving to Stuttgart, Germany, from Ramstein Air Base, for his new assignment as command senior enlisted leader of US European Command, announced the Pentagon on June 5. Adams, who entered the Air Force in June 1987, will succeed Fleet Master Chief Petty Officer Roy Maddocks. While at USAFE, Adams was the senior enlisted advisor to Gen. Philip Breedlove for a span of about nine months. He’ll be reuniting with Breedlove who took the leadership reins at EUCOM in May.
U.S. Southern Command recently announced its first lethal strike on a suspected narco-trafficking vessel in two months, and the first under a newly formed permanent counter-cartel task force. The U.S. is also reportedly planning to transfer MQ-9 drones to Colombia to bolster its counter-cartel efforts.