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  • Team Charleston welcomes home 'Pelicans'

    More than 125 Airmen from the 14th Airlift Squadron returned home Sept. 3 after being deployed more than four months to Southwest Asia supporting Operation's Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. While deployed, the 14th AS "Pelicans" flew more than three thousand missions with nearly four thousand

  • Pope Airmen aid hurricane evacuees

    Members of a Pope AFB Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility team providing assistance to Hurricane Gustav evacuees hit the ground running when they arrived at Lakefront Airport, La., Aug. 30, after spending much of the day in a C-17 aircraft. Once the plane landed, the MASF team immediately plunged

  • AMC poised to support post-hurricane operations

    Air Mobility Command planners and operators held a collective breath as Hurricane Gustav made landfall Sept. 1. Although most AMC aircraft and personnel were pulled back from the U.S. Gulf Coast area Aug. 31 -- hours before the hurricane's projected landfall -- the command was still fully engaged in

  • McChord deploys for Hurricane Gustav response efforts

    "Anytime, any place." McChord Air Force Base, Wash., put those words into action in the early hours Saturday as a C-17 Globemaster III headed to Travis Air Force Base, Calif., for Hurricane Gustav preparation efforts.Without knowing what or who they were picking up, the first of three C-17

  • McChord delivers Airmen, supplies to New Orleans

    A C-17 Globemaster III from the 62nd Airlift Wing, McChord Air Force Base, Wash., provided rapid deployment of a four-man team and 15,500 lbs of cargo from the 615th Contingency Response Wing at Travis AFB, Calif., into New Orleans International Airport Saturday in preparation for Hurricane Gustav.

  • AMC supporting Hurricane Gustav evacuation efforts in Louisiana, Texas

    In support of Hurricane Gustav humanitarian relief efforts, Air Mobility Command Aug. 29 began positioning emergency personnel, equipment and aircraft at various locations along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Command and control and coordination of the humanitarian airlift effort is provided by the 618th

  • Air Force, AMC poised for Hurricane Gustav support

    In response to preliminary reports that possibly point Hurricane Gustav toward the Gulf Coast of the United States, the Air Force is postured to support relief efforts, if needed. Hurricane Gustav - which formed Aug. 25 about 260 miles southeast of Haiti, is the third hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic