An Air Force Reserve Command C-17 airlifter from March ARB, Calif., with a mixed AFRC and active duty crew, flew a young Afghan boy named Omar Muhammad from Ramstein AB, Germany, back to Afghanistan. The boy had undergone heart surgery at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. His journey had begun over a year ago when his father brought Omar to Forward Operating Base Salerno where a US Army doctor diagnosed his heart problem. The Army medical team coordinated his airlift to the States and subsequent surgery. (Read more here.)
The Air Force hit its goal of recruiting 32,750 Active-Duty enlisted Airmen in fiscal 2026 five months early, leaders said this week—already the biggest such number the service has reached in more than two decades.