Airmen from the 379th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron and other units from across the installation volunteer to help Soldiers from the 165th Quartermaster Company build pallets full of meals, ready to eat, at an undisclosed location in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, May 10, 2024. Airmen and Soldiers worked together to package MREs into a parachute drop to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza. (U.S. Air Force video)
Airmen in need of serious medical care are routinely airlifted out of the operational theater, loaded onto a cargo aircraft with other patients to reach the care they need. On May 11, 2024, a routine aeromedical evacuation mission was transiting between multiple geographically separated areas to collect patients when, suddenly, the aircraft was deemed unsafe for flight, forcing patients to offload at a location not built to support the mass...