Historic 3rd Air Force being reactivated

By Scott Schonauer and Charlie Coon, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Thursday, October 5, 2006

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Nearly a year after deactivating the historic 3rd Air Force, the Air Force is bringing it back.

But what the headquarters command will do, where it will go and why it is coming back, officials will not say.

Brig. Gen. Michael Snodgrass, director of Plans, Programs and Requirements at U.S. Air Forces in Europe headquarters, confirmed the command would return but told Stars and Stripes he could not give any details because they were still being negotiated by the Pentagon and the U.S. State Department. Nations involved in the reorganization also must be notified.

A hint about the return of the 3rd Air Force emerged after the Pentagon announced last Friday that Lt. Gen. Robert D. Bishop Jr. would take over the deactivated command, once headquartered at RAF Mildenhall, England.

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Every day.

deactivated for a year? My guess is that they may put them somewhere in Africa.

A new wing of party loyalists? marvelous.