The Total Force C-17 team at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, has received the second of its new C-17 airlifters. It was flown to Hawaii from the Boeing production plant in Long Beach, Calif., on Feb. 21. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports that some 30 civic leaders from Hawaii made the flight aboard the C-17. (Note to Star-Bulletin: Nice article, but the C-17 is a strategic cargo plane.)
U.S. Southern Command recently announced its first lethal strike on a suspected narco-trafficking vessel in two months, and the first under a newly formed permanent counter-cartel task force. The U.S. is also reportedly planning to transfer MQ-9 drones to Colombia to bolster its counter-cartel efforts.