The flight line of Incirlik AB, Turkey, has become crowded with cargo and airmen as elements of the Air Force’s 39th Air Base Wing and the Turkish 10th Tanker Base worked to load 19 truckloads of United Nations supplies onto C-130s bound for Pakistan. The first shipment of aid left Oct. 19, and the airmen at the base had been working 24-hours-a-day for three days prior, according to Capt. Paul Cornwell, the 39th Logistics Readiness Squadron’s operations officer.
U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers fired advanced munitions in a live-fire exercise in the Middle East, the latest display of American muscle in the region. Two B-1s took off from RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom on June 7 and released precision munitions—JDAM guided bombs and an AGM-158 JASSM…