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ir Force medical personnel from Goodfellow AFB, Tex., and Lackland AFB, Tex., joined the personnel dispatched from Joint Task Force-Bravo in Honduras last week to aid relief operations in Peru following the 8.0 magnitude earthquake on Aug. 15. According to a US Southern Command release, the Goodfellow-Lackland team comprises 14 doctors, a physician assistant, a pharmacist, and six medical technicians. The JTF-Bravo team left Peru on Aug. 22, but the new team plans to remain in Peru until early September. It brought in $65,000 in medical supplies and quickly began treating villagers displaced by the quake and others in the area. Another Air Force medical contingent, this one from Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., plans to deploy to Peru from Aug. 31 to Sept. 14 to provide care to poor residents of Lima, a city of some eight million inhabitants.
The Department of the Air Force has identified 50 programs that will make up the core of its contribution to the Pentagon’s joint all-domain command and control effort, branding them part of the “DAF Battle Network,” according to newly-released budget documents. The DAF Battle Network programs span multiple offices and agencies…