A 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.
Less than a day after arriving in the Middle East, F-15E Strike Eagles from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. defended Israel from an Iranian attack in April 2024. DUDE flight, four F-15Es from the 335th Fighter Squadron, downed two dozen Iranian drones in roughly 45 minutes.