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team of some 20 airmen and a Navy medic joined forces for Operation Unity Knight, delivering supplies to people in Nairobi, Kenya, left without food and shelter following storm floods that devastated an area serving as home to 160,000 Somali refugees. Air Force journalist TSgt. Steve Staedler reports that Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa asked USAF for a team and a C-130 tactical airlifter to load and drop some 240,000 pounds of relief supplies over a five-day period.
Trainees in Basic Military Training and technical school no longer have the option to try alternate PT drills if they fail an initial assessment, according to a policy change the Air Force made in April. The move is part of a larger shift out of the classroom and into hands-on,…