Twenty-Fourth Air Force changed from Air Forces Strategic to Air Forces Cyber today, thus moving to a nomenclature which better reflects the mission the Numbered Air Force performs for the Air Force and the Department of Defense.
“The name change will not impact the 24th Air Force’s mission,” said Col. Mark Ware, 24th Air Force director of cyberspace plans and operations. “What the change does is maintain the Air Force naming convention of aligning the Numbered Air Forces with the combatant commands they support. The mission of 24th Air Force has always been grounded in the cyberspace domain.”
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