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Air Mobility Command

The 19th Airlift Wing Rodeo team boards a C130-J July 17. They will be participating in Air Mobility Command's Rodeo 2009 in a readiness competition at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., July 19-24. (U. S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jim Araos)

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Airman 1st Class Matthew Pyland and Tech. Sgt. Allen Horne, 100th Security Forces Squadron, do push ups on a set of bars on the British army’s Stanford Training Area July 10 during a break from running the area’s obstacle course. The Airmen running the course have been training for the 2009 Air Mobility Rodeo for 10 weeks, and most say they are now in the best shape of their lives. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Austin M. May)

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'Rodeo' competition sets sights on 2015

Published June 21, 2013
By Air Mobility Command Public Affairs

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Air Mobility Command has started preliminary planning for the next Mobility Air Force's Rodeo readiness competition, targeting July 2015.

Brig. Gen. Scott Goodwin, Air Mobility Command director of operations, said the biennial event is important despite the cancellation of this summer's Rodeo for budgetary reasons.

"We see direct benefits from Rodeo competitions, and those impacts have been felt globally," he said. "Rodeo lets us continue to develop skills of our Airmen and their ability to work with international partners for those unplanned events that happen throughout the world."

U.S. and allied nation teams typically travel to every two years to Washington state for Rodeo to participate in events that challenge the capabilities of airlift and air-refueling aircrews, as well as maintenance, aerial port, and aeromedical evacuation Airmen.