Tactical Air Command Requirements Deputy CHIEF of STAFF MGEN Carl H. Cathey speaks to guests at the Olympic torch flame arrival ceremony as first torchbearer Sandy Norris (yellow suit) listens. The flame first ignited in Olympia, Greece, is carried in a series of 52 torchbearers in a 1,000-mile relay run from the base to Lake Placid, New York, to open the XIII Winter Olympics