Operation Atlas Response begins to aid flood victims-an estimated one million people left homeless-in Mozambique. USAF C-5s and C-17s fly supplies 4,600 miles from a base in Germany to southern Africa, where C-130s and MH-53 and HH-60 helicopters distribute the food, water, medicine, and tents.
Promotions to the Space Force’s second highest enlisted grade, senior master sergeant, have surged to the highest level in the young service’s history, bolstering the senior NCO corps as officials plan to aggressively expand the force and especially the enlisted corps.