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C-130 crews from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing airdropped more than 240,000 pounds of relief supplies to refugee camps in Kenya over a five-day period in early December as part of Operation Unity Knight. The airdrop came after weeks of deluge rendered roads unusable. A team of approximately twenty airmen and one US Navy medic began work in Kenya on 8 December. The deployed C-130H crews, assigned to Combined Task Force — Horn of Africa, made their first two low-altitude airdrops on 9 December, delivering more than 35,000 pounds of mosquito netting and tarps. More than 160,000 Somali refugees live in three camps in the Dadaab region of eastern Kenya
Photo By Tsgt. Steve Staedler
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