According to Joint Forces Command officials, a program they created a year ago to place military members with a service different from their own at the three-star warfighting component level is paying off. In fact, they claim it has gotten “rave reviews.” JFCOM manpower official Charles Ridley explains that if USAF’s 12th Air Force needs an intelligence officer, the Joint Manpower Exchange Program may send the Southern Command component a Navy officer. So far, JMEP has 30 positions to work with and has filled 28. Officials expect to fill the last two slots by early October.
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.