The 41st Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron has another notch in their belt, after recently surpassing 3,000 combat flight hours in their EC-130H Compass Calls as they supported Operation Enduring Freedom over the past 18 months. USAF officials note that, during the past year, the squadron has flown more than 420 combat sorties and supported more than 1,570 coalition air-support requests. The squadron has been deployed from Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona since March 2004.
Operational testing of the MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopter could be delayed if all the necessary fixes to the system aren’t made in time, the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Testing said. Dust ingestion, gun issues, software, and the intercom are among the problems to be ironed out.