A US Air Force medical and dental team has been working with members of the Royal Thai Air Force on a humanitarian mission in northern Thailand during Cope Tiger 2007. According to one Royal Thai Air Force captain, the people these airmen are serving normally have no chance to get medicine because they can’t afford it and they live in the country.
The U.S. military is maintaining a beefed-up presence in the Middle East, including fighters and air defense assets, following the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities June 22 and subsequent retaliation by the Iranians against Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.