Airmen from Hickam AFB, Hawaii, left this week for Suva, Fiji, to participate in a training mission for Fijian military leaders and humanitarian programs. Lt. Col. Mylene Huynh, the mission commander and a PACAF international health affairs preventive medicine physician, said the 15th Medical Group team will spend about 20 days in Fiji going to rural villages to deliver health care, training military members, and discussing health care with civilian officials.
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.