Africa Crash Claims Two Airmen: Pentagon officials said that two airmen were among the 10 US service members killed when two Marine Corps CH-53 helicopters crashed on Feb. 17 into the Gulf of Aden near northern Djibouti. The airmen were: SrA. Alecia S. Good, 23, of Broadview Heights, Ohio; and SSgt. Luis M. Melendez Sanchez, 33, of Bayamon, P.R. Good was assigned to the 92nd Communications Squadron, Fairchild AFB, Wash., and Sanchez to the 1st CS, Langley AFB, Va. Both airmen and the eight marines killed were deployed as part of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa.
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.