Air Force fighter pilot and academic instructor, retired Lt. Col. Lloyd “Boots” Boothby, died Nov. 26, according to a Dec. 5 Air Force news release. Boothby led Project Red Baron at the Tactical Air Warfare Center at Nellis AFB, Nev., to improve the service’s air-to-air performance following the Vietnam War. His efforts helped create more realistic training, including dissimilar air combat training—the aggressor force.
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.