Airmen from Hickam AFB, Hawaii, left this week for Suva, Fiji, to participate in a training mission for Fijian military leaders and humanitarian programs. Lt. Col. Mylene Huynh, the mission commander and a PACAF international health affairs preventive medicine physician, said the 15th Medical Group team will spend about 20 days in Fiji going to rural villages to deliver health care, training military members, and discussing health care with civilian officials.
A new report by the Defense Department’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation found that Texas and Virginia are America’s top recipients of defense spending, some $83 billion and $64.3 billion, respectively. Texas and California top the spending categories for Air Force contracts and personnel, some $17 billion and $15…