U
S Air Force C-130 tactical airlifters working with US Central Command’s Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa spent two days delivering supplies to people in eastern Ethiopia left homeless by recent flooding. According to an Associated Press news service account, some 217,000 are homeless from flooding that killed at least 80 people.
The Air Force plans to conduct more intensive training—and Congress is set to help by boosting funding for exercises and so-called “campaigning” by hundreds of millions of dollars, particularly in the Pacific.
