PACAF Sends Forces to Latest Quake Region: 
Pacific Air Forces has dispatched a pair of C-130s from the Pacific region’s one and only tactical airlift unit and 85 airmen to help provide relief to victims of the recent earthquake near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The airlifters and airmen were dispatched from the 374th Airlift Wing at Yokota AB, Japan, “within hours” of getting the tasking, Lt. Gen. David Deptula, commander of the Kenney Warfighting Headquarters at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. According to the newspaper, PACAF also has dispatched eight members of the 36th Contingency Response Group from Andersen AFB, Guam, to assess airfields in the stricken area. (Read In More Depth about other CRG operations.)
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
