Fall 2003 Association Round-Up
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Table of CONTENTS: Association Business A/TA 2003 Board of Officers & Convention Staff.............................................2 Chairman’s Comments.....................................................................................4 President’s Message ...........................................................................................5 AIRLIFT/TANKER QUARTERLY Secretary’s Notes ...............................................................................................5 Volume 11 • Number 4 • Fall 2003 Association Round-Up ......................................................................................6 Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is published four times a year by Chapter Contacts .............................................................................................51 the Airlift/Tanker Association, Col. Barry M. Creighton, USAF (Ret.), Secretary, 1708 Cavelletti Ct., Virginia Beach, VA 23454. Association Contacts........................................................................................52 (757) 838-3037. Postage paid at Belleville, Illinois. Subscription rate: $30.00 per year. Change of address requires four weeks notice. The Airlift/Tanker Association is a non-profit professional Features organization dedicated to providing a forum for people interested in improving the capability of U.S. air mobility “People Are At The Heart Of Accolades For AMC” ........................ 9 forces. Membership in the Airlift/Tanker Association is $30 by Gen. John W. Handy, Commander, USTRANSCOM and AMC annually or $85 for three years. Full-time student membership is $10 per year. Life membership is $400. Corporate membership 2003 A/TA Award Winners............................................................................10-23 includes five individual memberships and is $1200 per year. 2003 Hall of Fame Inductee: Mr. John F. Shea..................................................................10 Membership dues include a subscription to Airlift/Tanker Quarterly, and are subject to change. 2003 A/TA Young Leader Award Winners................................................................... 15-18 Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is published for the use of the 2003 A/TA General Robert E. Huyser Award Winners .............................................. 20-21 officers, advisors and members of the Airlift/Tanker Association. 2003 A/TA Carlton Award for Valor Winner.....................................................................23 The appearance of articles or advertisements, including inserts, in Airlift/Tanker Quarterly does not constitute an endorsement by the Airlift/Tanker Association, the Air Mobility Cover Story Command, the Department of the Air Force or the Department “Carrying Freedom’s Flag”.................................................................24-34 of Defense, of the products or services mentioned or advertised. ©2003. Articles appearing in this publication may not be From Battlefields to Airfields – reprinted, in any form, without prior written approval from the Airlift/Tanker Association. The Role of AMC Assessment Teams in Operation Iraqi Freedom............37-41 Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is mailed on or about the 30th by Col. Gregory P. Cook, USAF, 621st AMOG Commander day of January, April, July and October of each year. The copy deadline for stories, articles, letters, etc., is as follows: Winter A Salute to the A/TA Corporate Members...................................................42-49 Edition – December 30th; Spring Edition – March 30th; Summer Edition – June 30th; Fall Convention Edition – August 30th. Airlift/Tanker Quarterly accepts advertising only for the Fall Convention Edition. A/TQ thanks the following Advertisers whose ads appeared in the print version of Fall 2003 magazine! EDITORIAL STAFF: AAR Mobility Systems Gen. Duane H. Cassidy, USAF, Retired Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. Chairman, Board of Officers Boeing Company, The Mr. Collin R. Bakse Bose Corporation Editor and Art Director EMTEQ Engineered Support Systems, Inc. Lt. Col. Nicky McCollough, USAF, Retired Business Manager FlightSafety International FMC Airport Equipment Col. Ronald E. Owens, USAF Retired Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Editorial Advisor L-3 Communications Col. Gregory Cook, USAF Lockheed Martin Corporation Public Affairs Coordinator Northrup-Grumman - Electronic Systems Ms. Dawn L. Bakse Parker Hannifin Corportion Editorial and Advertising Coordinator Pratt & Whitney / Military Engines Rockwell Collins, Inc. Telephonics Corporations PRINTED IN U.S.A. A/TQ •Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2003 1 2003 Board of Offi cers & Convention Staff Chairman General Duane H. Cassidy Senior Vice President USAF, (Ret) President MajGen Richard C. Marr Vice President Industry Affairs CMSgt Mark A. Smith USAF, (Ret) Col Edward J. Wiesner, Jr. USAF, (Ret) USAF, (Ret) Vice President Programs Col Dennis L. Murphy USAF, (Ret) Treasurer Col John J. Murphy, Jr. Symposium Director USAF, (Ret) Col Robert E. Dawson USAF, (Ret) Secretary Convention Chairman Col Barry M. Creighton Col Dave Patterson USAF, (Ret) USAF, (Ret) Convention Registrar Col Dennis W. Traynor Historian USAF, (Ret) Mr. James K. Matthews A/TQ Editor Master of Cermonies Mr. Collin R. Bakse Col George E. Dockery USAF, (Ret) 2 A/TQ •Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2003 A/TQ •Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2003 3 Chairman’s COMMENTS It’s an Honor to I have been your chairman for the past four years and I frankly don’t know where the time has gone. I do know that Carry “Old Glory” I have just loved being involved with you – each and every- Back in the early 1800s, long before the one of you – for these past years, watching our Association Wright Brothers fi rst fl ight, 100 years ago this get stronger with each passing year. December, and the use of military aircraft for As I look back I wonder when it was that I really got rapid transport, our young country relied hooked on this Mobility mission that I have spent nearly all on seafarers for “mobility.” Even then those of my adult life involved in. It is clearly a mission that gets serving America’s interests proudly displayed under your skin, every day doing what you are trained to the Flag aboard their vessels. It was aboard do and every day helping someone else, serving your fellow the brigantine “Charles Doggett,” that the Americans in so many ways in so many places. But, I know term “Old Glory” was fi rst given voice. all too well that it really is not the mission that grabs you, as Some versions of the story say it was noble as it is. It really is the guys next to you; it is the man 1824, some say it was 1831, but all agree General Duane H. Cassidy or woman working shoulder to shoulder with you making that Captain Willian Driver, a shipmaster USAF, (Ret) the complexities of what we do seem easy. It is that person in Salem, Massachusetts, exclaimed next to you who fi nds a better way to do it, or just a way to do it at all, that keeps you “Old Glory,” upon seeing a 24-star Flag, going, performing, wanting to do more, doing more than you ever thought you could. handcrafted by his mother’s sewing circle, It is that group of fellow airmen who brings out the swell of pride, the tear in your eye, catch an ocean breeze for the fi rst time. the shiver up your spine, that inspiration from a peer that is what counts, yet can not be The fl ag went on to circle the world twice described. I guess that if you have not experienced it you would assess these comments and was fl ying when the Charles Doggett as emotional dribble, but if rescued the survivors of the mutiny on HMS you have, well, just smile, you “Bounty.” know what I mean. It is sim- “As I hang up my Chairman’s badge When Captain Driver retired to Nashville, ply that esoteric feeling that Tennessee, in 1837 he took his beloved comes from teamwork and …I have to tell you that I have been fl ag with him. In 1860, the Captain’s wife working toward a common and daughter lovingly repaired the fl ag, goal with people you enjoy proud to have been your chairman replacing it’s 24 stars with 34 to refl ect the being with that has the angels and to be part of this great group of proper number of stars for the time. To on its side. That is what we commemorate Captain Driver’s sea service, are all about, that is what this fi rst class Professionals.” they also embroidered an anchor in the Association celebrates every lower right corner of the canton. year in a great, and getting When the country erupted into Civil War greater all the time, convention. Captain Driver’s “Old Glory” was well know in As I hang up my Chairman’s badge and turn over the reigns to Ron Fogleman, I have to and around Nashville, and upon Tennessee’s tell you that I have been proud to have been your chairman and to be part of this great secession from the Union local “Rebels” were group of fi rst classProfessionals . All of you, people who do what you do because it has to determined to destroy this hated “Yankee” be done, perform a mission worthy of those of you involved. symbol. They failed in repeated searches to I can’t leave without thanking the superb board of offi cers I have served with. To each fi nd any trace of its existence. of you – Barry, John, Dennis, Bill, Mark, Eddie, Bob, Buck, the “Bagger,” Bud, Collin, Jim, On the 25th of February, 1862, as Union and my predecessor Bob – all of you who willingly give of your time and unselfi shly share forces captured Nashville, the Captain was your talents with us all, my sincere thanks; once again it has been great serving with