Gen. Howie Chandler last week formally became the vice chief of staff of the Air Force. He assumed USAF’s No. 2 uniformed post after an almost two-year stint as commander of Pacific Air Forces. Chandler succeeds Gen. William Fraser who held the vice chief’s office since last October and has received Senate confirmation to be the next Air Combat Command head. Chandler is a 1974 graduate of the US Air Force Academy. He is a command pilot with more than 3,900 flying hours, mostly in fighter aircraft. Late last month, Chandler’s replacement, Gen. Gary North, assumed command at PACAF. (SAF/PA release)
In the final few hours before the Senate adjourned for its Memorial Day recess on May 26, lawmakers approved a raft of some 3,400 pending military nominations, including a number of high-profile Air Force and Space Force generals to assignments that will significantly reshape some of the upper echelons of…