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Maryland Air National Guard C-130J making supply runs between Puerto Rico and Honduras got diverted last week to haul a joint medical force and supplies into Peru to aid earthquake recovery efforts. TSgt. Sonny Cohrs reports that the Air Guardsmen from the 135th Airlift Group at Martin State Airport, near Baltimore, picked up the supplies and some 30 airmen and soldiers, comprising medics, a mobile surgery team, and communications and security force specialists, at Soto Cano AB, Honduras, for transport to Peru. The medics began work on the morning of Aug. 17, after the massive Aug. 15 earthquake, seeing more than 200 patients in the first three hours, reports SrA. Shaun Emery.
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.