Gen. Charles R. Holland becomes commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, the first—and to day, only—Air Force officer ever to command all U.S. special operations forces.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.