Air Force personnel late last month concluded participation in a major training exercise in Honduras. Airmen operating out of Soto Cano AB, Honduras, as part of US Southern Command’s Joint Task Force-Bravo, took part in the annual disaster-response drill sponsored by COPECO, the Honduran equivalent of FEMA, from July 23-25. The exercise simulated a response to areas devastated by heavy rains and flooding and dealing with the pending arrival of a hurricane. (Soto Cano report by TSgt. John Asselin)
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…