Pacific Air Forces had to scrub plans to use the first C-17 stationed at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, to ferry relief supplies late on Feb. 19 to the Philippines when the brand new airlifter developed a “minor” malfunction, officials told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The base had to shift the cargo from the Hickam C-17 to one from Charleston AFB, N.C., which was in Hawaii. A base spokesman told the newspaper that the Hickam C-17 needs to replace an aircraft propulsion data management computer. It’s still under warranty, right
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.
