APS trains hard to earn trophy

Editor's note: This is the second in a four part series of articles highlighting McChord's Rodeo 2007 competitors. It's been less than 18 months since the bellows of training instructors stopped ringing in his ears, yet Airman 1st Class Shawn Brown already has one trip to Iraq behind him. His

C-27J Spartan named as Joint Cargo Aircraft

The U. S. Army announced a $2.04 billion contract award June 13 to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems for their C-27J Spartan to be the Joint Cargo Aircraft. This JCA program is a combined Air Force and Army effort to have an airframe that will meet warfighter needs for intratheater airlift.

SERE Challenge

Maintenance prepares for Air Mobility Rodeo 2007

Eighteen Fairchild Airmen are working some major overtime right now, all to show the world they're the best at what they do. Air Mobility Rodeo 2007 is fast approaching and local teams are training at their hardest. The biennial competition, which takes place July 22-28 at McChord Air Force Base,

Precision airdrops deliver directly to battlefield

Water, food and ammunition are only useful if they make it to the people who need them. Fortunately for battlefield Airmen, Soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan these supplies are flown in using the Joint Precision Airdrop System. C-17 Globemaster IIIs at the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing are

Charleston's Airmen make a difference AMC wide

Charleston transformed the way Air Mobility Command did business May 1. One of Charleston's charter initiatives was to scrutinize our primary mission -- launching C-17s. During the initial implementation of the Sequence of Events initiative, the team's objective was to reduce the time required by

Air Mobility Command reaches 'R and R' milestone

An ATA Airlines L-1011 touched down on the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport tarmac at 8:50 a.m. June 12, bringing home the 500,000th passenger since the the U.S. Central Command's Rest and Recuperation Leave Program and Air Mobility Command's R and R flight operations began in 2003. Maj. Gen.

New C-17 checklist reduces redundancies

Team Charleston has once again made its mark in the C-17 community by reducing wasted motion and time in the preflight sequence of events. A Charleston AFB team has figured out a way to shorten C-17 preflight time by one hour and 30 minutes by focusing on reducing redundancies and eliminating

Loading up for Rodeo

"On your marks, get ready, set ... GO!" With that, four Travis Airmen took off, sprinting toward a C-5 Galaxy with its engines running. The four Airmen, members of the 60th Aerial Port Squadron's Rodeo Team, were practicing a C-5 engine running on/offload, where they must load and unload a C-5 and a

911th inactivation first step in base restructuring

The 911th Air Refueling Squadron here was inactivated June 8 during a formal ceremony at the Northern Lights Club, ending another chapter in the squadron's storied history. Recognized by the Air Force Historical Research Agency as the 47th most historically significant squadron out of 847 Air Force