President Barack Obama has nominated Maj. Gen. Anthony Rock for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and for assignment as Chief of the Office of the Defense Representative-Pakistan, at the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. Rock currently serves as vice director of strategic plans and policy on the Joint Staff, according to a Feb. 25 Pentagon release.
In 1941, Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold of the then-U.S. Army Air Corps, personally reviewed a jet engine patented by Sir Frank Whittle flying on a Gloster E.28/39 aircraft. Impressed by its design, Arnold arranged for a Whittle engine to be brought back to the U.S. and tasked General Electric…