The Air Intelligence Agency formally has become the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency, a field operating agency aligned under the Air Staff’s A2, Lt. Gen. David Deptula, deputy chief of staff for ISR. According to a June 21 release, the formal ceremony took place at Lackland AFB, Tex., on June 15—not June 8 as previously expected—with Air Combat Command boss, Gen. Ronald Keys officiating. AIA was aligned under ACC.
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…