Training at Keesler AFB, Miss., has returned to its pre-Hurricane Katrina status, with enrollment back to 3,400 students just seven months into a three-year plan for restoration, reports the Associated Press news service. Lt. Col. Shane Courvill, deputy director of training, told AP that officials expect approximately 38,000 students to complete training at the Air Education and Training Command base in 2006.
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.