Airmen currently assigned to NAS Keflavik, Iceland, recently got a visit from a US Air Forces in Europe assignments team to sort out their fates following the announcement that the US was pulling American forces out of the facility. The team fielded questions on potential assignments and family situations, but it could not yet provide a date for the cessation of Air Force operations. All plans, said USAFE officials, await an execute order from the Chief of Staff.
The U.S. Air Force is working on a test program with Japan to establish a joint maintenance center that will perform repairs on aircraft operated by both nations—creating a “deterrent effect that will make adversaries think twice,” a top general said.