Eight C-5s and 22 C-141s of Military Airlift Command transport 1,300 security specialists from the US to Panama to counteract political instability that threatens the safety of several thousand US citizens in the Canal Zone.
The Air Force is on track to reach its annual goal of graduating 1,500 new pilots that had proved elusive to this point, one year after the service launched a sweeping overhaul of its undergraduate pilot training program, Air Education and Training Command said Sept. 14.
