The operation was called Nimble Star. C-17s, in a total of five sorties, moved 136 tons of equipment from Rwanda to Fashir, Sudan. The deliveries supported nearly 3,500 Rwandan peacekeeping troops in that desperate land and were, in the words of a Rwandan Defense Force officer, "essential" to the mission.rnThe January 2009 airlift, conducted by USAF C-17s from Travis AFB. Calif., marked a major milestone for newly fledged US Air Forces Africa, the air component of US Africa Command.rnFirst, the three-day airlift of oversize vehicles, cranes, water purification systems, trailers, tents, and spare partsrnmarked the first major operation for the Air Force component, also known as 17th Air Force.
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