Air Force personnel late last month concluded participation in a major training exercise in Honduras. Airmen operating out of Soto Cano AB, Honduras, as part of US Southern Command’s Joint Task Force-Bravo, took part in the annual disaster-response drill sponsored by COPECO, the Honduran equivalent of FEMA, from July 23-25. The exercise simulated a response to areas devastated by heavy rains and flooding and dealing with the pending arrival of a hurricane. (Soto Cano report by TSgt. John Asselin)
While the U.S. Air Force plans to spend big and make Collaborative Combat Aircraft drones an essential part of its tactical fleet in the near future, the U.S. Navy is working to team manned and unmanned aircraft as well.