In Operation Intense Look-the deployment of US minesweeping assets to the Red Sea-Military Airlift Command flies 44 missions to transport 983 passengers and 1,324 tons of cargo. Egypt and Saudi Arabia had requested the minesweeping after mysterious shipping explosions.
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.
