Gen. Robert H. “Doc” Foglesong, US Air Forces in Europe Commander, received the highest honor of the enlisted corps on Aug. 26, when he was inducted into the command’s Order of the Sword before a packed house at the officers’ club at Ramstein AB, Germany. Foglesong, who has commanded USAFE since August 2003, praised today’s NCOs as the core of the Air Force’s strength and the “steel in our back.” Fogelsong is the 16th inductee into USAFE’s Order of the Sword.
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…