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Air Force integrates missions, strengthens information warfare capabilities
Chief Master Sgt. Summer Leifer, Sixteenth Air Force command chief, unfurls the Sixteenth Air Force flag to signify its activation, as Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, and Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, former commander of Twenty-Fifth Air Force, look on during the Sixteenth Air Force Assumption of Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, Oct. 11, 2019. Twenty-Fourth Air Force was also inactivated during the ceremony to integrate into the new information warfare Numbered Air Force. Sixteenth Air Force is responsible for providing IW capabilities to combatant commanders with the speed to match today’s technological environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. R.J. Biermann)