Airmen at Andersen AFB, Guam, held a special memorial last week to honor A1C Portica Beckton, who died on Sept. 9 while deployed to Kosovo when the vehicle in which she was riding rolled over. Beckton was a client support administrator with the 36th Contracting Squadron at Andersen who had deployed to Kosovo on an air and space expeditionary rotation. The other three service members in the vehicle survived with minor injuries.
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.
