Lajes Field's capabilities to save a downed space shuttle crew
will be put to the test during a daylong exercise here January 30.
The exercise involves American and Portuguese forces and a Defense
Department agency for space flight.
The combined event joins 65th Air Base Wing and Portuguese Air Base
4 emergency forces at this base in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. Joint
fire, medical, search and rescue, as well as other forces here will
take part testing a wealth of capabilities, according to Portuguese
air force Maj. Albano Coutinho, chief of the air operations center
here.
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