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team of some 20 airmen and a Navy medic joined forces for Operation Unity Knight, delivering supplies to people in Nairobi, Kenya, left without food and shelter following storm floods that devastated an area serving as home to 160,000 Somali refugees. Air Force journalist TSgt. Steve Staedler reports that Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa asked USAF for a team and a C-130 tactical airlifter to load and drop some 240,000 pounds of relief supplies over a five-day period.
Three of four congressional committees with influence over defense policy have voted to change the official name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War—but final approval of the Pentagon rebrand is months away and not yet assured.