Air Force 
Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz is now an honorary member of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II fame. Retired Brig. Gen. Leon Johnson, Tuskegee Airmen Inc., president, bestowed Schwartz with an honorary membership during a ceremony in the Pentagon last week attended by six original Tuskegee members. Byron Morris, Tuskegee Airmen East Coast Chapter president, also presented Schwartz with a Tuskegee Airmen red jacket. Schwartz joined Gen. Merrill McPeak and Gen. Ronald Fogleman as the only Air Force Chiefs of Staff to be honorary members in the famous group of black airmen who flew fighter escorts during World War II and helped to break down racial barriers in the US military. (Air Force photo caption by Scott M. Ash) (For more background, read Tuskegee Airmen from the Air Force Magazine archives.)
The U.S. military is maintaining a beefed-up presence in the Middle East, including fighters and air defense assets, following the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities June 22 and subsequent retaliation by the Iranians against Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
