The "Pacific Pivot" has been a popular term of art since the President outlined his new defense strategic guidance in 2012, but for airmen operating in the theater it just means business as usual. "You hear a lot about the rebalance to the Pacific. I think that's true for the US as a whole, but for the Air Force ... it's nothing new," Brig. Gen. Jeffrey R. McDaniels, director of air and cyberspace operations at Pacific Air Forces, told Air Force Magazine at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, in April. "We've been here over 80 years. We've never turned our back on it. We've never taken our eye off the Pacific. The Pacific is very important to us. Not just to us, but to the world as a whole."
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