Alert 5

Kuwait Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Mohammad Al-Khuder and Kuwait Naval Forces Commander Maj. Gen. Khalid Mahmud Abdullah escaped serious injuries when their Bangladesh Air Force Mi-171Sh helicopter crashed inside a Border Guard Bangladesh camp in Sreemangal town on Jan. 3.

Photo: Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense
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Denmark will send F-16s to Zokniai air base in Lithuania on Jan. 5 as it takes over the NATO Air Policing mission from the U.S. F-15 contingent there.

By Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) (F16 – RIAT 2008Uploaded by russavia) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Greece lost a T-2 jet trainer on Jan. 3 when the aircraft came down shortly after taking off from Kalamata air force base.

By Georgios Pazios (User:Alaniaris) (Self-photographed) [Attribution], via Wikimedia Commons
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Six Dutch F-16s left Volkel Air Base on Jan. 3 for an air base in Jordan to relief the Belgian F-16 contingent fighting ISIS there.

By RAF-YYC from Calgary, Canada (RNLAFUploaded by russavia) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons