Return To Cold War Thinking Needed, New USAFE Boss Says

Pilots with the 510th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron prepare to depart 86th Air Base, Romania, following a NATO air policing deployment on July 20.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
RAF FAIRFORD, England—When Gen. James Hecker began his flying career in the U.S. Air Force in the cockpit of an F-15C in the early 1990s, he and his fellow pilots knew exactly what their job would be: Fight the Soviet Union. That’s all the Eagles would train for at home. The aircrews would also...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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