The leadership traits of Capt. Mark T. Daley , a squadron airman , earned him the Air Force ’s 1999 Lance P. Sijan Leadership Award for Junior Officers They were : In March 2000 The squadron deployed a MH-53M Pave Low IV helicopter to Air Force Base Hoedspruit , South Africa to support Operation Atlas Response . Operation Atlas Response was a multi-national humanitarian relief mission helping displaced people in central and southern Mozambique that had been devastated by floods . A United States Air Force flight crew used the maiden voyage of one of its MH-53M Pave Low IV helicopters 12 March to deliver desperately needed clothing to flood victims in Mozambique . The 21st transported more than 4,700 pounds of donated clothing from the Mozambique town of Palmeira to Xai-Xai , a city still half-submerged by floodwaters
devastated by floods
2000 Mozambique flood
21st Special Operations Squadron