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Table of Contents Association Business 2006 A/TA Board of Officers & Convention Staff ................................................... 2 Chairman’s Comments. .......................................................................................... 4 President’s Message ................................................................................................. 5 Secretary’s Notes ..................................................................................................... 5 Association Round-Up ......................................................................................... 7-9 AIRLIFT/TANKER QUARTERLY Association & Chapter Contacts ........................................................................... 64 Volume 14 • Number 4 • Fall 2006 Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is published four times a year by the Airlift/Tanker Association, Col. Barry F. Creighton, USAF (Ret.), Secretary, Features 1708 Cavelletti Court, Virginia Beach, VA 23454. (757) 838-3037. Postage paid at Belleville, A Message from General McNabb. ............................................................... 10 Illinois. Subscription rate: $30.00 per year. Change of Cover Story address requires four weeks notice. The Airlift/Tanker Association is a non-profit The Decisive Edge: America’s Air Mobility Team ..................14-19 professional organization dedicated to providing a forum for people interested in improving the Airlift/Tanker Hall of Fame .......................................................................... 20-21 capability of U.S. air mobility forces. Membership in the Airlift/Tanker Association is $30 annually 2006 A/TA Hall of Fame Inductee ................................................................ 22-23 or $85 for three years. Full-time student membership is $10 per year. Life membership 2006 A/TA General Robert E. “Dutch” Huyser Award Winners .................. 24-25 is $400. Corporate membership includes five individual memberships and is $1200 per year. 2006 A/TA Young Leader Award Winners.................................................... 26-31 Membership dues include a subscription to Airlift/Tanker Quarterly, and are subject to 2006 A/TA Colonel Gail S. Halvorsen Award Winner ...................................... 35 change. Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is published for the 2006 A/TA Specialized Mission Award Winner ................................................ 36 use of subscribers, officers, advisors and members of the Airlift/Tanker Association. 2006 A/TA General P. K. Carlton Award for Valor Winner ............................... 39 The appearance of articles or advertisements, including inserts, in Airlift/Tanker Quarterly Mobility News & Views ................................................................................ 40-45 does not constitute an endorsement by the What’s the 18 AF / TACC Done For You Lately? ............................................... 47 Airlift/Tanker Association, the Air Mobility Command, the Department of the Air Force or A Salute to A/TA Corporate Members .......................................................... 48-59 the Department of Defense, of the viewpoints, products or services mentioned or advertised. ©2006. Articles appearing in this publication AMC Operational Test & Evaluation ........................................................... 61-62 may not be reprinted, in any form, without prior written approval from the Airlift/Tanker Association. Alphabetical List of Advertisers Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is mailed on or about the 30th day of January, April, July and October AAI ......................................................................................................................... 11 of each year. The copy deadline for stories, AAR Mobility Systems ........................................................................................... 42 articles, letters, etc., is as follows: Winter Edition – December 30th; Spring Edition – March 30th; Armor Holdings Aerospace & Defense Group ...................................................... 63 Summer Edition – June 30th; Fall Convention Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. ...................................................................Back Cover Edition – August 30th. Airlift/Tanker Quarterly accepts advertising Boeing Company, The .......................................................................................... 37 for the inside front and back covers for the Bose Corporation .................................................................................................. 41 Winter, Spring and Summer Editions; and for Capewell Components Company LLC ................................................................. 60 throughout the Fall Convention Edition. EADS North America | Northrup Grumman ............................................... 32 & 33 EDITORIAL STAFF: EMTEQ .................................................................................................................... 3 Gen. Ron Fogleman, USAF, Retired FlightSafety International ............................................................ Inside Back Cover Chairman, Board of Officers FMC Technologies ................................................................................................. 34 Mr. Collin R. Bakse Editor and Art Director Gulfstream............................................................................................................. 17 Lt. Col. Nicky McCollough, USAF, Retired Lockheed Martin Corporation .............................................................................. 38 Business Manager Lockheed Martin Corporation .............................................................................. 46 Col. Ronald E. Owens, USAF Retired MTC Technologies ................................................................................................ 45 Editorial Advisor Parker Aerospace .........................................................................Inside Front Cover Col. Gregory Cook, USAF Pratt & Whitney .................................................................................................... 30 Public Affairs Coordinator Smiths ................................................................................................................... 12 Ms. Dawn L. Bakse Editorial and Advertising Coordinator Telephonics ............................................................................................................. 6 PRINTED IN U.S.A. A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2006 A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2006 Sometimes Foresight Is 0/0… While doing the research for the article Chairman’s about 2006 Hall of Fame Inductee, General Comments Duane Cassidy [pages 22-23], I ran across many references to General Cassidy’s interaction with Congress during the weeks and months before his efforts led to the America’s Air Mobility Team…The Decisive Edge funding of the C-17. Time and again he was As this edition of the Magazine goes to press the A/TA leadership asked if he believed that such an expensive and staff of volunteers are fine tuning aircraft was the right choice for America’s “The gathering this the planning for our 2006 convention in “next generation” airlifter. year will take place Orlando. The program promises to be one He steadfastly supported the C-17, and against the of the best to date with commitments reiterated that it’s size and capabilities were backdrop of the from an impressive array of senior leaders, highest sustained exactly what future air mobility missions record support from our vendors, a superb operations tempo in required. When asked if the Air Force would Gen Ronald R. Fogleman professional education program for the the history of our ever really deploy such an expensive asset USAF, Ret Active Duty, Guard and Reserve troops and Air Mobility force.” into “austere, short runway, far forward, an opportunity for the retired community to meet friends and get hostile” conditions his answer was always an update on current mobility operations. Our capstone event will be the banquet on Tuesday an emphatic yes. Because he stuck to this night when General Duane Cassidy will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. position – a position that skeptics found The gathering this year will take place against the backdrop of the highest sustained hard to believe – the press labeled him operations tempo in the history of our Air Mobility force. The demands to support US and everything from a “consummate salesman” coalition forces in the War on Terror have been unprecedented. In the history of airpower to a “huckster.” History has proven him there may have been comparable operations over shorter periods of time, but we have right. From Bosnia to Afghanistan to Iraq the never seen such a sustained level of operations over such a long time. In a recent letter to C-17 has fulfilled its promise – something all Airmen, General Mosley made note of the fact that somewhere in the world a mobility even the skeptics would now have to admit. aircraft is launching every 90 seconds on a sustained 24/7 basis. The feature article in the The foresight of General Cassidy, and all September, 2006 issue of Air Force Magazine titled, “Air Mobility’s Never-Ending Surge,” did an the other military and political leaders who excellent job of describing the accomplishments and the challenges faced by the Air Mobility supported the C-17, has proven to be 20/20. community. The ten Founding Members of the A/TA In the end, the success or failure of Air Mobility will be determined