In a continued push to make the average airman a spokesman for the Air Force, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley recently convened a one-day summit to forge a strategic communication blueprint that would provide the tools to spread the Air Force message. Moseley said, “Our major challenge is a lack of awareness of what the Air Force does.” He also said of USAF operations, “We make it look easy; it’s not easy.” Noteworthy also is that a panel of journalists at the summit urged Air Force leaders to talk more openly and frequently with the press. Peter Spiegel of the Los Angeles Times, said: “I don’t think advocating for the Air Force is speaking against the other services. It’s a disservice if you don’t tell the story.”
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, Col. David J. Berkland. Berkland’s…