Airmen and additional US military personnel from Joint Task Force-Bravo came together with Honduran medical partners to provide general medical care to more than 1,100 victims of severe flooding around Choluteca in southern Honduras. “The places chosen were the hardest hit by torrential rain, mudslides, flooding, and sink holes,” said 1st. Lt. Tyler Grunewald, medical operations officer with the task force’s medical element. He added, “The recent weather and the destruction of crops from flooding made survival tough for these villages and consequently affected their health.” During the two-day mission, Nov. 29-30, the US and Honduran medical staff treated villagers for illnesses, provided dental care, filled thousands of pharmacy prescriptions, and educated the villagers on preventative medicine. “Some of these people haven’t been treated in their entire lifetime,” noted SrA. Michael Marshburn of the medical element. (Choluteca report by TSgt. Matthew McGovern)
The Air Force and Boeing agreed to a nearly $2.4 billion contract for a new lot of KC-46 aerial tankers on Nov. 21. The deal, announced by the Pentagon, is for 15 new aircraft in Lot 11 at a cost of $2.389 billion—some $159 million per tail.