Airmen who have poured i
n to Louis Armstrong International Airport to assist with disaster efforts in New Orleans will have tent cities, complete with latrines, showers, and laundry services, courtesy of the newly formed 4th Air Expeditionary Force. The 4th AEG includes personnel from Holloman, AFB, N.M., Scott AFB, Ill., Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., Shaw AFB, S.C., and Tyndall, AFB, Fla.
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.
