Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner Jr., Air Force Reserve chief, said Tuesday he is relocating next month from the Washington, D.C., area where he has maintained a headquarters to Robins AFB, Ga., home of Air Force Reserve Command, the major command that he also heads. “That doesn’t mean anything goes away up here” in terms of his responsibilities as the Reserve chief, he told attendees at AFA’s 2009 Air & Space Conference. Rather, it’s just the desire to collocate the AFRC commander at the major command headquarters.
Unmanned aerial vehicles are fair game for U.S. Special Operations Command’s armed overwatch platform competition, Air Force Special Operations Command boss Lt. James C. “Jim” Slife told reporters on Feb. 26. However, the MQ-9 Reaper drone might not be up to the challenge in its current form, he suggested during…