Overview
- Reuters photos show HC-130J and HH-60W combat rescue aircraft at Puerto Rico’s Roosevelt Roads, following the arrival of EA-18G Growlers there a day earlier.
- Open-source tracking and satellite imagery identify six KC-135 Stratotankers operating from Santo Domingo’s Las Américas airport in the Dominican Republic.
- KC-46 Pegasus tankers have flown from the U.S. Virgin Islands since mid-September, with five to six regularly visible on the ramp this week, according to Planet Labs imagery.
- The Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing has a federal mobilization order, and a U.S. official said its F-35As are being sent to the Caribbean with specifics on numbers, timing, and basing not yet disclosed.
- The White House says President Trump does not seek a prolonged war in Venezuela and frames the mission around stopping illegal drug trafficking.