ASDF team heads to Indonesia to help E. Timor refugees

ASDF team heads to Indonesia to help E. Timor refugees

KOMAKI, Japan - A team of 102 Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) members leave Nov. 24 for Indonesia on a mission to provide humanitarian support to East Timorese refugees stranded in West Timor. The team that departed on three C-130 transport planes from the ASDF base in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, will join an advance ASDF team which arrived in Surabaya on Java Island on Nov. 22.

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