Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach is a career fighter pilot who has spent most of the past four decades in the Pacific.
Around 46,000 troops and civilian staff are spread across Air Force bases from Alaska to Guam.
The Air Force is reimagining the role of the A-10C attack plane, a counterterrorism mainstay, for a new kind of fight.
Growing U.S.-Australian military cooperation is poised to have ripple effects on aviation as well.
