The Air Force inactivates the 20th Fighter Squadron, the service’s last operational F-4 Phantom unit, at Holloman AFB, N.M., where it had trained German Luftwaffe crews for 33 years. (The Luftwaffe continues training at Holloman, employing Tornado aircraft.)
Lt. Gen. Stephen L. Davis, the Department of the Air Force’s top internal watchdog, has been nominated to lead Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the service’s bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.