USAF transport aircraft carry some 3,200 US soldiers to Honduras for Exercise Golden Pheasant, responding to a Honduran government request after Honduras experiences an incursion of Sandinista forces from Nicaragua.
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.
