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Afghan Surge Prompts Mobility Records
Afghan Surge Prompts Mobility Records:  USAF mobility forces for the past four months have bettered their own records for cargo airdropped, while the overall pace for cargo and passengers delivered and aerial tanker fuel offloaded has soared from spring throughout the summer to meet increasing needs of operations in Afghanistan. In June, USAF airdropped a record 3.2 million pounds, followed by 3.3 million in July, 3.8 million in August, and 4.1 million last month. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 James Wright in Afghanistan from the 101st Airborne commended USAF for "doing a great job" in providing "needed support to soldiers in the field." Other numbers: Cargo and passenger airlift jumped about 75 percent from February to March and has continued at an elevated pace, with an average of about 23,000 pounds and 34,000 passengers a month; aerial refuelers had offloaded 60 million pounds in February compared to 80 million pounds in September. (AMC report by TSgt. Scott Sturkol)
10/20/2009
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Preemptive Action
"Since the [Defense] Department's acceptance of the independent estimates last fall, we've been, in just about every respect, acting as if the program were in a Nunn-McCurdy breach. ... We've been taking all of the mitigating and corrective action that we would take as if there were a Nunn-McCurdy breach."
—Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, discussing with reporters the restructure of the F-35 strike fighter program announced in February 2010 and the probability that the program will soon exceed Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds that would necessitate, per US law, a program review and corrective steps, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2010. |
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Message for Grandma
"She has working for her as a citizen in the United States an Air Force Reserve that has some very talented, capable, patriotic, and willing individuals doing the business to keep this nation free. Just like her generation—the 'Greatest Generation'—was, I am very proud of the folks that we have got. If not the second greatest, then they are an extension of the greatest generation and they are ready, willing, and able to do the things that she would want them to do to make sure we keep our freedoms."
—Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, Air Force Reserve chief, responding to a reporter's question on what the reporter should tell his 85-year-old grandmother to convey to her the importance of Air Force Reservists to the nation's security, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19, 2010.
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