The Senate on Dec. 9 confirmed the nomination of Maj. Gen. Harry Wyatt III to receive a third star and take over as head of the Air National Guard. The Bush Administration last month nominated Wyatt, who serves currently as the Oklahoma Adjutant General, to fill the post recently vacated by Gen. Craig McKinley. McKinley, who led the ANG from May 2006, received his fourth star on Nov. 17 and became director of the National Guard Bureau. Since then Maj. Gen. Emmett Titshaw has been acting director of the Air Guard.
The U.S. began extensive air and artillery strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria on Dec. 19 in retaliation for the killing of three Americans on Dec. 13 by a gunman affiliated with ISIS, U.S. officials said.
