First Air Force changes command; receives first three-star commander
Gen. William M. Fraser, Air Combat Command commander, pins a third star Lt. Gen. Sid Clarke, the new Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region-1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern) with the help of Clarke’s wife Rebecca. Clarke received his third star Aug. 31 immediately before assuming command of CONR-1st AF (AFNORTH) and making history as the first lieutenant general to ever hold a command billet at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lisa Norman)