Apart from participating in Cope Tiger 06, a tri-lateral exercise comprising US, Singapore, and Thailand forces operating out of Korat RAFB, Thailand, some Pacific Air Forces airmen take time to aid local schools and provide medical assistance to civilians in the area. One such is USAF MSgt. Kenny Orange who helped explain treatments and medications to local residents seen at a field hospital. Orange said he and his Singapore medic partners dispensed more than 300 prescriptions.
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…