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Maj. Gen. (frocked) Alexus G. Grynkewich, the deputy commander of operations and intelligence for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, has been appointed the director of operations for US Central Command, the Pentagon announced. Grynkewich previously served as deputy director for global operations on the ...
Lt. Gen. James Hecker recently received his third star and took over as commander and president of Air University during a Nov. 22 ceremony at Maxwell AFB, Ala. Hecker was previously the vice director of operations for the Joint Staff, and before that he ran ...
The Air Force and other local emergency services on Nov. 22 suspended the active search for SSgt. Cole Condiff, the special tactics airman who fell into the Gulf of Mexico from a C-130 on Nov. 5. For more than two weeks, USAF aircraft, airmen, and ...
USAF Gen. John Hyten on Nov. 21 officially became the 11th vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a swearing in ceremony at the Pentagon. Hyten previously was the commander of US Strategic Command, and handed over that position to Navy Adm. Charles ...
A JB Charleston, S.C., C-17 crew recently received an award for how it handled an in-flight emergency, including a fire that caused extensive damage to the aircraft, while transporting a Coast Guard helicopter in Central and South America. The crew of REACH 111 on Nov. ...
The two airmen killed in a Nov. 21 T-38 mishap at Vance AFB, Okla., have been identified as Lt. Col. John “Matt” Kincade, 47, and 2nd Lt. Travis B. Wilkie. Kincade was an instructor pilot assigned to the 5th Flying Training Squadron at Vance, and ...
Two airmen at Vance AFB, Okla., were killed in a “mishap” during a routine training flight at the base. Two T-38 training aircraft, each with two airmen, were performing a mission when the incident occurred during the “landing phase” of the flight around 9:10 a.m., ...
A coming $30 billion shift in the Air Force budget from legacy programs to those that better align with the National Defense Strategy won’t drive a reorganization of Air Force Materiel Command, but its leader, Gen. Arnold Bunch, said he wants the flexibility to reassign ...

