ASDF team leaves Japan to help E. Timor refugees

ASDF team leaves Japan to help E. Timor refugees

NAHA, Japan - A team of 102 Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) members leaves Japan on Nov. 25 for Indonesia on a mission to provide humanitarian support to East Timorese refugees stranded in West Timor. The team departed on three C-130 transport planes from the ASDF base in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, and will join up with an advance ASDF team that arrived in Surabaya on Java Island on Nov. 22.

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