The U.S. military has been providing humanitarian assistance to Laos since 1991. A view of the irrigation pumps installed in Savanakhet Province in 1996 by U.S. Navy Seabees and the Civil Affairs Liaison Team (CALT) to provide water for growing rice.

Capt. William Wieninger, 13th Air Force (13th AF) team chief and Flying Officer Mahfuz, Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), shake hands at the BAF Academy parade ground, during 13th AF's first Cooperative Engagement Program with the BAF.

Fighting forest fires using C-130 aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems (MAFFS).

An E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) is a Boeing 707 modified by Northrop Grumman with special radar to detect and identify slow-moving ground targets up to 250 kilometers (150 miles) away.