Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein provides opening remarks for the Sixteenth Air Force Assumption of Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, Oct. 11, 2019. The Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Air Forces were inactivated during the ceremony to integrate into the new information warfare numbered air force. Sixteenth Air Force is responsible for providing information warfare capabilities to combatant commanders with the speed to match today’s technological environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. R.J. Biermann)