US 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.
Aircraft readiness will suffer if Congress does not approve some $1.5 billion worth of spare parts the Air Force requested in its annual Unfunded Priorities List, sent to Capitol Hill last week, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said.