Eight medics from five US Air Forces in Europe bases are working in Liberia to train some of the country’s scarce medical personnel, as part of an initiative by President Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson to re-energize security forces within the fledgling democracy.
After nearly a yearlong vacancy, the Air Force has a Vice Chief of Staff once more. The Senate confirmed Gen. John D. Lamontagne to the service’s No. 2 job on Jan. 30 in an uncontroversial voice vote, along with a new head of U.S. Southern Command and five Air Force three-stars.
