The Air 
Force has delivered more than 50,000 meals to Pakistan as part of international relief efforts in the wake of devastating floods. A C-130H crew operating with the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, delivered nearly 8,000 packages of Halal—meals prepared according to Islamic laws—to Islamabad July 31, marking the first international aid to reach Pakistan since monsoon floods devastated dozens of villages, reportedly killing 1,500 people. “We had a quick response from the time we were notified to the time the pallets were on the airplane,” said Capt. Robert Dodson, the C-130H aircraft commander. A C-17 from the 385th Air Expeditionary Group subsequently delivered more than 44,000 meals on Aug. 1. (Bagram report by TSgt. Drew Nystrom) (See Tuesday’s Associated Press report for more background on the flooding.)
A provision in the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill will require the Defense Department to include the military occupational specialty of service members who die by suicide in its annual report on suicide deaths, though it remains to be seen how much data the department will actually disclose.