Joint service retirement ranks among the stars
Maj. Gen. William Schauffert, Mobilization Assistant to the U.S. Strategic Command commander, receives a folded American flag from the 301st Joint Service Honor Guard member during his retirement ceremony August 22, 2014, at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, as Adm. Cecil D. Haney, USSTRATCOM commander, looks on. USSTRATCOM, located at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., is one of nine DoD unified combatant commands and is charged with strategic deterrence, space operations, cyberspace operations, joint electronic warfare, global strike, missile defense, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, combating weapons of mass destruction, and analysis and targeting. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samantha Mathison)