Operation Pacific Haven begins. USAF airlifts thousands of refugees driven from their homes in northern Iraq to Andersen AFB, Guam, where they are processed for settlement in the US.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.