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  • USTRANSCOM meets challenge of Afghanistan deployments

    Mountainous, landlocked, challenging ... all words that can be used to describe the landscape of Afghanistan. That country, just slightly smaller than the state of Texas, poses special consideration for the deployment and the resupply of American forces serving there. The number of U.S. forces

  • AMC supports humanitarian mission to Argentina

    Members of the 375th Logistics Readiness Squadron here June 12, loaded the 26,000-pound heart of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine onto a C-17 bound for Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. -- and ultimately Argentina. The MRI equipment was donated to a hospital in Salta, Argentina, by Washington

  • 618th TACC Flight Clearances initiative wins DOD recognition

    The 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center here was awarded first prize for the best operational improvement initiative during the Department of Defense's Second Annual Continuous Process Improvement Symposium June 1 to 3 at the National Conference Center in Lansdowne, Va.All military branches were

  • Maintaining the Fight: Air Mobility in Afghanistan

    Being in a fight is easy, it is having the ability to stay in the fight until you win that is the hard part. This is especially true in the new type of war being fought by the Coalition forces in Afghanistan where the enemy's strategy is to outlast the resolve and sustainment capability of U.S. and

  • AMC begins moving Strykers into Afghanistan

    Air Mobility Command's hub for global airlift, air refueling and aeromedical evacuation is "all in" with its commitment to support joint worldwide operations, kicking off efforts this week to airlift more than 300 Stryker vehicles to military forces in Afghanistan.The term Stryker applies to a

  • Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft makes first flight

    Members of the Air Force Research Laboratory and Lockheed Martin's famed 'Skunk Works' launched a new era of aircraft manufacturing technology and performance with the successful initial demonstration flight of the Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft June 2 at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif.

  • Multinational mobility unit welcomes AMC commander

    A first-of-its-kind mobility unit comprised of Airmen from 12 nations recently hosted the commander of Air Mobility Command at Pápa Air Base, Hungary.The Heavy Airlift Wing, the operational-level unit of the Strategic Airlift Capability consortium of NATO and Partnership for Peace nations, brought

  • Vietnam the first 'tanker war'

    Editor's note: This is the seventh article in a series of articles highlighting the history of aerial refueling and the important role aerial refueling has played in American military history.Air refueling played an important role throughout the air war over Southeast Asia. With distances of 7,100

  • NCAA coaches visit troops in hospital

    Henry Bautista wasn't one of the U.S. servicemembers seven NCAA football coaches visited at a U.S. military hospital in Germany Friday.That's because servicemembers are not the only ones risking their lives in dangerous places like Iraq. That's where Bautista, a field representative for a light