This article was originally written by Charlie Schill for Cache Valley Daily
HILL AIR FORCE BASE – In a surprising move, the acting secretary of the U.S. Air Force visited Utah’s Hill Air Force Base on Wednesday, accompanied by Rep. Blake Moore, R-District 1.
John P. Roth is a career Pentagon bureaucrat who was picked to temporarily head the Department of the Air Force on Jan. 20, pending the selection of a permanent replacement by President Joe Biden and the newly confirmed Secretary of Defense, retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin.
Roth’s recent round of visits to stateside installations has raised some Pentagon eyebrows, because it is unusual for an individual in a placeholder role like Roth’s to do much more than “mind the store” in Washington, D.C.
Moore tagged along on Roth’s unusual visit to HAFB as a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the host representative of Utah’s 1st Congressional District.
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