Air Force To Send Five-Man Team Into Sierra Leone Tomorrow

By Thomas Duffy / May 16, 2000 at 5:00 AM
A five-man Air Force team will arrive in Sierra Leone tomorrow to inspect the country's main airport to see if it could handle more U.S. military air flights into the civil war-torn country, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today. Bacon said the team would be on the ground at the airport outside of Freetown for about two days. A Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and an Air Force master sergeant are in Sierra Leone acting as U.S. military liaison officers, Bacon...

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