The Army for the first time has invited the Air Force to participate in its annual “Unified Endeavor” exercise at Ft. Drum, N.Y. The goal is to talk airpower capabilities with senior members of the 10th Mountain Division, which shortly will rotate into the lead force of Joint Task Force-76 in Afghanistan. Airmen provided the training work for coordination with the theater air and space component. The lessons covered items ranging from working with USAF’s tactical air control party airmen in the field all the way up to coordinating major ground movements with the theater’s air operations center.
The Pentagon is significantly bolstering airpower near Venezuela, dispatching the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Caribbean Sea, it said in an Oct. 24 statement. The announcement came just hours after U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers and other U.S. assets flew near the Venezuelan coast on Oct. 23.
