US Joint Forces Command , the DOD joint deployment process owner, and US Transportation Command, the DOD distribution process owner, have penned a joint vision statement to “align interrelated joint deployment and distribution actions for better mutual performance and to add value for the warfighter,” according to a TRANSCOM news release. JFCOM commander, Air Force Gen. Lance Smith, said the agreement forms “the first step to a better environment that will allow the sharing and maturation of new ideas.”
A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flew from Europe across the Middle East to the Persian Gulf on July 25 in a 32-hour flight, as conflicts continued to roil the area with U.S. troops coming under attack in Iraq and Syria on July 25 and July 26, U.S. officials told…