A 15-member medical team comprised of Air Force and Army personnel is working in Chouleuteca, Honduras, for two weeks, providing free optometry and ophthalmology services to needy people. The team has performed more than 30 surgeries and anticipates doing about 172 more. Airmen from Soto Cano Air Base in the Honduras joined specialists from Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., for this latest medical readiness training exercise.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
