US, multinational airmen fly around the world on medical supplies delivery

AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — Crews from a multinational airlift wing have delivered hundreds of thousands of pounds of medical supplies to countries spanning the globe, the U.S. Air Force officer commanding the unit said Tuesday.

The Strategic Airlift Capability’s Heavy Airlift Wing traveled to what under normal circumstances would be nice vacation spots. But their stays in Thailand and the Caribbean were very brief and part of a long mission to aid the global response to the coronavirus.

“It was about a 40-hour day,” said U.S. Air Force Col. James Sparrow, commander of the operational element of the Papa, Hungary-based command, of a mission that also included stops in South Korea and Afghanistan before ending in Romania.

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