2 US military aircraft reportedly touch down in Tobago
One day after US top military officer General Dan Caine arrived in Trinidad and met with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, two US military aircraft are believed to have departed from Scarborough Tobago, headed to North America.
A US Airforce Boeing C-17A Globemaster III, appeared on tracking site FlightRadar24 today, reportedly leaving Tobago at 5.53.a.m. this morning and is currently in transit over the United States.But according to online Open Source Intelligence expert @LatAmMilMVMTs who has been closely following the military build-up in the Caribbean this year, the aircraft is one of two of its kind that transited through the Scarborough International Airport (TAB/TTCP) today.
The account told the Express that two C-17âs (RCH660 C-17A 01-0192 and RCH661 C-17A 99-0165) were within the airspace, one of the aircraft tracking on FlightRadar24 when it departed and the other was not tracked at all. Both are believed to have originated from the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, North Carolina.