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President Taps Holmes To Head Air Combat Command

September 12 2016

USA

President Obama has nominated Lt. Gen. James "Mike" Holmes as the next commander of the Air Combat Command, reports the Air Force Times.

If confirmed, Holmes will be promoted and take command of the organization that is responsible for supplying fighter, conventional bomber and intelligence and surveillance assets to combatant commanders around the world, the Pentagon announced on Thursday.

In the role of ACC chief, Holmes would also oversee much of the air war against the...

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