US military personnel are conducting six days of health services outreach activities and civil engineering projects on Sri Lanka’s Jaffna peninsula through Aug. 10 as part of US Pacific Command’s Pacific Angel humanitarian-assistance and disaster-preparedness program. They are working alongside Red Cross and Sri Lankan government officials during the event, states an Aug. 6 release from Pacific Air Forces, the lead agency for Pacific Angel. As part of the activities, medical personnel will provide primary care, physical therapy, optometry, and dentistry in the towns of Alvain North and Atchelu, and civil engineers will help to renovate several schools, states the release. Pacific Angel takes place four times a year in different nations in the Asia-Pacific region. This first Pacific Angel event in Sri Lanka took place in August 2010.
Multiple B-21s are undergoing ground tests and being prepared to join the two aircraft now in test flight, and the Northrop Grumman is negotiating with the Air Force about how expanded production for the bomber could be accomplished, president and CEO Kathy Warden said Oct. 21. She also suggested a…
