President Obama has nominated Maj. Gen. Thomas Travis to receive a third star for his new assignment as the Air Force’s surgeon general, announced the Pentagon. Travis has been USAF’s deputy surgeon general since November 2010. He’ll replace Lt. Gen. Charles Green, who’s served as surgeon general since August 2009. Also in the Pentagon’s June 8 release was word that the President has nominated Maj. Gen. Darren McDew for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general for his new assignment as commander of 18th Air Force, Air Mobility Command’s sole warfighting numbered air force, at Scott AFB, Ill. McDew, Air Force District of Washington commander at JB Andrews, Md., since December 2010, would replace Lt. Gen. Mark Ramsay, who’s been 18th AF boss since September 2011. Ramsay is moving on to become the Joint Staff’s director of force structure, resources, and assessment (J-8), states the release.
Dick Cheney’s Legacy with the Air Force
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Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3 at 84, is best remembered by most Americans as among the most powerful Vice Presidents in history, a consummate Washington insider who had previously served in the Nixon administration, was Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford, a Congressman for a decade, and Secretary…
