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Pledging to build on the Space Force’s achievements while also infusing the nascent service with new approaches, Gen. B. Chance Saltzman was officially installed Nov. 2 as Chief of Space Operations, the service’s highest-ranking military post, and only the second person to hold the position in the Space Force’s history.

The attendees of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference’s 93rd iteration toured Creech and Nellis Air Force Bases Oct. 26, and witnessed firsthand how the U.S. Air Force is prepared to win the future fight.

U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers from the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, integrated with U.S. Naval forces over the Indo-Pacific region to conduct a naval mine exercise (MineX) during a Bomber Task Force mission at Andersen Air Force Base, Oct. 24. 

This is the second time Andersen AFB welcomed the Lancers for a Bomber Task Force mission this year, demonstrating the bomber’s ability to rapidly deploy anywhere, anytime, and provide lethal precision global strike options for combatant commanders.

Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost, U.S. Transportation Command commander, provided the keynote address Oct. 17 at the National Defense Transportation Association-Transcom fall meeting.

The Air Force confirmed Oct. 20 it plans to reveal the B-21 Raider Dec. 2 during an unveiling ceremony hosted and sponsored by the Northrop Grumman Corporation at its production facilities in Palmdale, California.

A Lockheed Martin F-35 crashed in Utah on Wednesday evening, sending the pilot to the hospital and starting a fire.

Two KC-135 Stratotankers simultaneously conducted 72-hour single-aircraft endurance missions, demonstrating multi-day tanker mission generation capabilities, Oct. 4-7. 

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Center for Rapid Innovation, or CRI, held an event Oct. 6 with the Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing for a ROAM Robotics team to demonstrate the latest Forge System, a pneumatically-powered exoskeleton that augments leg strength to reduce fatigue, increase endurance and offset weight.

Meeting the challenges of the 2022 National Defense Strategy requires a range of new and innovative approaches to training U.S. Air Force senior leaders. One such way is through the 705th Training Squadron’s restructuring of their training portfolio to include the Air Component Senior Leader Course. This new course is designed for O-6 level division chiefs and senior staff principals, taught at Hurlburt Field.