In a reorganization, the Air Force Security Assistance Center has activated the 555th International Group to oversee the Air Force’s $100 billion security assistance budget and foreign military sales to more than 100 countries. AFSAC is part of Air Force Materiel Command, headquartered at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
A helicopter instructor pilot failed to take sufficient corrective action in time to fix the mistakes of a student pilot taking off from a slope, resulting in a rollover that caused nearly $11 million in damages to a TH-1H chopper last spring.