Air Mobility Command chief Gen. Duncan McNabb stopped by Yokota AB, Japan, during a nine-day tour of AMC operations across the Pacific, to say “thank you for the great work” of the 730th Air Mobility Squadron at Yokota. McNabb said: “When you think about the Pacific Rim and about its importance to our country … if we have to undertake combat operations, our ability to come through Yokota becomes absolutely essential.”
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.