US Air Forces in Europe plans to send a mobile vehicle maintenance team to Mozambique this month to offer local military forces insight into how USAF manages vehicle support. The visit marks USAF’s first military-to-military interface with the African nation, although the US Air Force has participated in humanitarian actions in the area. The airmen on the team are coming from Ramstein AB, Germany, and RAF Lakenheath, England.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach told lawmakers Apr. 30 that the service’s biggest airlifter, the C-5 Galaxy, has a 37 percent mission capable rate—one of several challenges facing the mobility fleet.