Planning Haiti relief efforts
Lt. Col. Bart Blessing, a contingency mission planner from the 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center's Global Readiness Directorate (XOP), plans a C-17 Globemaster III mission to support relief operations in Haiti, Jan. 16. The XOP projects mobility forces to achieve national goals and objectives in support of wartime needs, contingencies, aeromedical evacuation, exercises and humanitarian efforts. 618th TACC personnel have been working around-the-clock since Tuesday to support U.S. relief efforts in Haiti after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the region. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Justin Brockhoff)