WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio, Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology issued the following news release:

Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Ken Wilsbach used firsthand accounts of Airmen who served during Operation Epic Fury to define the path forward for the service in his keynote address, Sept. 14, at the 2026 Air & Space Forces Association Air, Space & Cyber Conference (https://www.afa.org/air-space-cyber-conference/).

"We must be ready to fight, built to endure, and integrated to win," Wilsbach told Airmen, Guardians, allies, partners and industry leaders.

Wilsbach noted that for 250 years Americans have answered the call to defend an idea unlike any in history - from crossing frozen rivers with Gen. George ...