Air Force units this week continued their support of earthquake relief efforts in Pakistan. According to statistics from US Central Command Air Forces, a C-17 transport, a contracted AN-124 Condor, and two contracted B-747s flew in more than 430,000 pounds of medical, office and school supplies, vehicles and other materials. As of October 31, USAF airlifters had hauled into Pakistan more than five million pounds of supplies.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III chaired a China-focused military briefing Oct. 27, part of a biweekly series of briefings with senior military commanders about China’s growing threat in the wake of an orbital hypersonic weapon test that elicited public worries from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “What we…