Some 155 airmen from the Royal Australian Air Force are deployed to Southwest Asia, where they operate C-130 airlifters, flying supplies throughout the Southwest Asia area of operations. SrA. Clark Staehle also reports that some RAAF airmen work in the Combined Air Operations Center, where they coordinate Australian airlift flights and provide intelligence for other Australian assets in the theater.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.