The American and Chinese militaries are trading blame after a close call between two warplanes over the South China Sea on Dec. 21, as a Chinese fighter jet came within a few yards of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 Rivet Joint over the South China ...
INDOPACOM
Saltzman new Space Force Chief; Space Development Agency satellites; U.S. Space Force bypasses Air University for education; Space Force components in INDOPACOM, CENTCOM, Korea.
The Space Force and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command formalized a new chain of command for Guardians in the Pacific, activating a new service component command of the unified combatant command. Establishing U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific gives the Space Force a seat “at the table” to plan ...
The Space Force has a new Chief of Space Operations, and by the end of 2022, it will have established components within two more combatant commands and one sub-unified combatant command. The first component, for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, will stand up Nov. 22. Then will ...
The Space Force is poised for two major changes in November, with a new Chief of Space Operations taking command early in the month and the service’s component for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command standing up a few weeks later. Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David ...
Undersecretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones, Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, head of U.S. Transportation Command, and Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach, head of Pacific Air Forces, joined together for a panel on “Preparing for Global Competition” at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference, Sept. ...
F-35s Squadrons in Alaska; Brown tours PACAF.
Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach, Pacific Air Forces Commander, has delivered two decades of experience to lead the Air Force’s most geographically dispersed major command. Wilsbach sat down with Air Force Magazine at his office at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, in a building whose pockmarked ...
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has two new squadrons of F-35s at its disposal in Alaska just as “quite a bit of action” has taken place in the combatant command’s area of responsibility and the “advanced threats” there are becoming “more lethal,” said the squadrons’ wing commander, ...
When top Air Force leaders graced the stage at a senior noncommissioned officers' summit to urge attendees from 65 nations to collaborate with the United States, one region was noticeably underrepresented: the Indo-Pacific. Of the 39 partner nations that Pacific Air Forces identifies in the ...
Nominees to lead U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Special Operations Command who testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on July 21 described the Air Force assets they would need to better fight terrorism and counter influence by China and Russia. Army Lt. Gen. Bryan ...
U.S. Air Force F-35s and F-22s regularly deploy deep into the Pacific region from Alaska, Utah, and Hawaii. In the future, though, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command would like to see the Air Force permanently station fifth-generation aircraft west of the international date line—closer ...
