Pacific Air Forces will continue bomber deployments to Australia, with regional allies increasingly “welcoming” them amid China's "heavy-handedness." PACAF commander Gen. Kevin Schneider also said that the bombers will work on anti-ship strikes in the theater.
Air Force Global Strike Command will regularly rotate a small number of bombers to the Pacific and Middle East theaters to maintain a regular deterrence presence and to conduct combat operations as needed, but it will no longer operate out of bases such as al-Udeid ...