A short lil blurb in today's AFA Daily Report:
USAF Breaks Airdrop Record, Again: Air Force transport aircraft dropped 3,800 container delivery system supply bundles in August to troops at remote forward operating bases in Southwest Asia, establishing yet another airdrop record. The August airdrops topped July's mark of 3,600 bundles delivered, the previous record. Mobility airmen averaged more than 99 tons delivered per day in August, which equates to about six million pounds of food, water, equipment, and supplies for the month. "These airdrops are critical to sustaining ground forces at austere locations where other means of re-supply aren't feasible," said Col. David Almand, director of the Combined Air and Space Operations Center's air mobility division, which coordinates, tasks, and executes in-theater air mobility missions. (AMC report by Roger Drinnon)
The piece may be short but the effort sure as Hell ISN'T. Congrats to Air Mobility Command; it's not often the trash-haulers get the recognition they deserve. Check out the pic in all its high-res glory... jes click it.
(U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez)
(U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez)
Beans, bacon and bullets have to come from somewhere! Job well done!
ReplyDeleteThose guys are working their tails off!
ReplyDeleteImagine if we had that capability in WW II. Life in, say, Leningrad, would have been very different.
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