US Air Forces in Europe medics joined other US military and Moroccan medical personnel, treating patients in rural Morocco for diseases such as tuberculosis and intestinal infections as part of the humanitarian medical aid portion of African Lion 06, an annual US-Moroccan military exercise, which ended May 31. According to Stars and Stripes, a group of 33 active duty and reserve Air Force and Navy personnel have treated nearly 5,000 people in less than a week.
RTX’s Raytheon unit was able to “significantly” extend the range of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile using mostly software changes in experimental tests last year, expanding the reach and lethality of the standard U.S. dogfighting weapon, company officials said Sept. 15.
