Some 16 Air Force medics deployed to El Salvador for a US Southern Command medical readiness exercise that ended Dec. 13 treated 7,300 patients on the country’s southeastern coast. They got translation assistance from Peace Corp volunteers and spouses of US military members on embassy duty. SOUTHCOM plans to run 64 similar exercises in 17 Caribbean, Central, and South American countries through September 2008.
The Space Force is feeling the love from Congress, which approved its biggest wishes, such as converting space-oriented Air National Guard units into Space Force ones, in the compromise 2025 National Defense Authorization bill unveiled Dec. 7.