TIRANA, August 6/ATA/- For about a week, from July 29 to August 5, the US Air Force Special Operations Command unit conducted training and flight operations in the Albanian airspace.
Three “MC-130J Commando II” aircrafts and their crews conducted flight training in support of special operations in Europe.
US military aircrafts and troops were deployed at the military unit of Mother Teresa International Airport, where they have been visited by the Albanias’ Defense Minister Olta Xhaçka , who was accompanied by the Charge d’Affairs at the U.S Embassy in Tirana, Leyla Moses-Ones, Deputy Force Commander, Colonel Editson Zarka and the Defense and Naval Attaché at the U.S. Embassy, James Hilton.
The Defense Minister Xhaçka praised the presence of US military aircraft as an evidence of great attention given by the United States to Albania, concretized both in terms of effective training the effective as well as through equipments such as, Humvee or Black Hawk helicopters, expected to be operational soon in our Air Forces.//a.i/
