Download or read book Wings of Hope The United States Air Force and Humanitarian Airlift Operations written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information on concerns of Vietnam War veterans about the consequences of ecposure to Agent Orange.
Download or read book Air Force C 17 Aircraft Procurement written by Jeremiah Gertler and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Background: C-17 Program; Comparison with C-5; Program Origin and Milestones; Procurement Quantities; Contractors, Employment, and Production Line Shutdown; International Sales; C-5 Modernization Program; C-5 Avionics Modernization Program; C-5 Reliability and Re-engining Program; Requirements for Strategic Airlift; Mobility Capabilities Study 2005; Evolution in Planned Mix of Airlift Aircraft, 2005-09; Mobility Capabilities and Requirements Study 2016; (3) Issues for Congress: Procuring C-17s and Legislating on Airlift Force Structure; Requirements for Airlift Capability; Cost-Effectiveness of C-5 Modernization Compared to C-17 Procurement; (4) Legislative Activity in 2009. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Airlift Doctrine written by Charles Miller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n this extremely comprehensive overview of airlift and air mobility, Colonel Miller shows how the worldwide orientation of American foreign policy, the numerous threats to free-world interests, and the speed and complexity of modern warfare have combined with political and resource constraints to produce today's airlift doctrine and force structure. Airlift is the movement of goods and people to where they are needed, when they are needed there. Since the 1920s there has been an evolving awareness and articulation of how to best organize, train, and equip airlift forces for that mission. The worldwide orientation of American foreign policy, the numerous threats to free world interests, and the speed and complexity of modern warfare have combined with political and resource constraints to produce today's airlift doctrine and force structure. Colonel Miller's study traces these many interrelationships to discover what critical airlift decisions were made, why they were made, and what they may mean in the future. Airlift is the backbone of deterrence. A properly structured and equipped airlift force is critical to the successful execution of the national military strategy. How we think about airlift and how we translate those thoughts into a meaningful expression of how to develop, deploy, and employ airlift forces is vital to the national defense. Colonel Miller's study is a definitive step in that important process.
Download or read book Military Airlift Status of C 17 Aircraft Development Program written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Concise History of the U S Air Force written by Stephen Lee McFarland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.
Download or read book To Save a City written by Roger G. Miller and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War II, the Soviet Union drew an Iron Curtain across Europe, crowning its efforts with a blockade of West Berlin in a desperate effort to prevent the creation of an independent, democratic West Germany. The United States and Great Britain, aided by France, responded with a daring air logistical operation that in fifteen months delivered almost three million tons of coal, food, and other necessities to the people of Berlin. Now, drawing on rare U.S. Air Force files, recently declassified documents from the National Archives, records released since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the memories of airlift veterans themselves, Roger G. Miller provides an original study of the Berlin Airlift. The Berlin Airlift was an enterprise of epic proportions that demonstrated the power of air logistics as a political instrument. What began as a hastily organized operation by a small number of warweary cargo airplanes evolved into an intricate bridge of aircraft that flowed in and out of Berlin through narrow air corridors. Hour after hour, day after day, week after week, a stream of airplanes delivered everything from food and medicine to coal and candy in defiance of breakdowns, inclement weather, and Soviet hostility. And beyond the airlift itself, a complex system of transportation, maintenance, and supply stretching around the world sustained operations. Historians, veterans, and general readers will welcome this history of the first Western victory of the Cold War. Maps, diagrams, and more than forty photographs illustrate the mechanical inner workings and the human faces that made that triumph possible.
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book C 17 Aircraft Program Review written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Military Acquisition Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiscal Year 1978 Budget written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book So Many So Much So Far So Fast written by James K. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military airlift options exist for meeting requirements while acquiring fewer C17s report to the Honorable Elizabeth Furse House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book C 17 Airlifter Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Mobility written by Robert C. Owen and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global air mobility is an American invention. During the twentieth century, other nations developed capabilities to transport supplies and personnel by air to support deployed military forces. But only the United States mustered the resources and will to create a global transport force and aerial refueling aircraft capable of moving air and ground combat forces of all types to anywhere in the world and supporting them in continuous combat operations. Whether contemplating a bomber campaign or halting another surprise attack, American war planners have depended on transport and tanker aircraft.
Download or read book Understanding Airfield Capacity for Airlift Operations written by J. P. Stucker and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report recommends that planners and others interested in airlift flow through airfields of various types and locations no longer use standard minimum times on ground (MOGs) or standard ground times but, instead, estimate the specific aircraft ground time and airfield capacity for each stopover by carefully considering the servicing, fueling, and loading operations needed for each type of mission stopping at each airfield, and the major ground resouces available at each airfield.
Download or read book Military Airlift written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Airlift written by Nancy R. Kingsbury and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Airlift requirements written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
