Air Weather Service units support US efforts to track the movement of radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl nuclear-reactor accident in the Soviet Union. WC-130 Hercules aircraft fly air-sampling missions.
The U.S., South Korea, and Japan flew an unusual trilateral flight with two U.S. B-52H Stratofortress bombers escorted by two Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2s, and two ROK Air Force KF-16 fighters—both countries’ respective variants of the F-16—July 11. That same weekend, the top military officers of the three nations…