Two airmen at the Contingency Operating Location Bilate, in Ethiopia, are the only Air Force members at the training facility where their assignment is to keep critical communications running between the remote, predominantly Army camp and the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa headquarters at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, approximately 483 miles to the northeast. Air Force journalist SSgt. Francesca Popp reports that SrA. Jeremy Cole and A1C Steven Brumley maintain contact via radio, phone, and Internet.
F-35As from the Vermont Air National Guard have deployed to Puerto Rico in recent days, continuing a major buildup of U.S. Air Force assets in Latin America aimed at combating drug trafficking and pressuring the regime of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
