For some reason, Air Forces Central never posted on its Web site the airpower statistics for Aug. 7. When prompted, AFCENT provided the stats, so we have added a sorties table for Aug. 7 to our Aug. 12 Daily Report column that included the stats for Aug. 8 and 9. We also revised the year-to-date numbers for all subsequent sortie tables to bring us up to date.
Lt. Gen. John Daniel Caine—President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—is poised to become the first Air National Guardsman elevated to the nation’s highest uniformed role.