Airmen currently assigned to NAS Keflavik, Iceland, recently got a visit from a US Air Forces in Europe assignments team to sort out their fates following the announcement that the US was pulling American forces out of the facility. The team fielded questions on potential assignments and family situations, but it could not yet provide a date for the cessation of Air Force operations. All plans, said USAFE officials, await an execute order from the Chief of Staff.
Amid NATO’s continued push to ramp up air defenses in Eastern Europe, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall swung by seven allied countries to boost relations last week, including those on Russia’s and Ukraine’s doorstep.