Burg went on to say that he is working hard on Capitol Hill and in other places to dispel the myth that non-deployed service members are not active participants in the Global War on Terror. “That’s absolutely wrong,” Burg says airmen in space operations are key to providing near-time ISR capabilities from platforms such as Global Hawk and Predator UAVs to warfighters in the field and intelligence-gathering operations back home.
Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost—a trailblazer and one of the first 10 women to reach a four-star rank across the U.S. military—retired and passed control of U.S. Transportation Command to Air Force Gen. Randall Reed on Oct. 4, finishing an eventful tenure at TRANSCOM.