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SUMMER 2018 Flight Safety Information Maintainers with Junior FORUM Sharing Volume 27, No. 2 CONTENTS THE MOBILITY FORUM Summer 2018 AIR MOBILITY COMMAND Gen Carlton Everhart II
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EDITORS Kim Knight 3 16 30 36 [email protected] Sherrie Schatz FROM THE TOP SEASONAL CONSIDERATIONS Sheree Lewis 3 Air Force SE Maj Gen Rauch 28 Harvey the Horrible [email protected] Talks About Who We Are and How We Do Business BASH PROGRAM GRAPHIC DESIGN 32 C-17 + Whitetail Deer = Changes Elizabeth Bailey FLIGHT SAFETY AMC HERITAGE The Mobility Forum (TMF) is published 5 Sharing Flight Safety Information four times a year by the Director of with Junior Maintainers 34 Secret WWII Mission Fueled the Fight Safety, Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, IL. The contents are informative and RISK MANAGEMENT not regulatory or directive. Viewpoints 7 You Can’t Make This Stuff Up! REGULAR FEATURES expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policy of AMC, AMC AIRCRAFT 20 Center Spread: Fireworks Safety USAF, or any DoD agency. 10 C-5M: A Class of Its Own 26 AMC Well Done Award Presented Contributions: Please email articles and SAFETY CULTURE to the 721st Aircraft Maintenance photos to [email protected], Squadron Impoundment Team, fax to (580) 628-2011, or mail to Schatz 12 Critical Days of Summer 2018 Ramstein AB, Germany Publishing, 11950 W. Highland Ave., Blackwell, OK 74631. For questions call 24 The Road Less Traveled 27 Spotlight Award: Petro 91 Crew, 60 (580) 628-4607. The editors reserve AMW, Travis AFB, California the right to make editorial changes to AMC NEWS manuscripts. 9 Rican 68: Honoring Their Memory 37 Mishap-Free Flying Hour Milestones DE denotes digitally enhanced photo. 13 732 AMS Inspection 39 Quickstoppers Diverts Disaster at Joint Base Subscriptions: U.S. 40 A Day in the Life Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Government Printing Office: 2015-545- 114. For sale by the Superintendent of 15 AMC Safety Operations Flight Documents, U.S. Government Printing Hosts Second Biennial Conference Office. Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov. ON THE COVER Phone: toll free (866) 512-1800; DC 16 A “Rosie the Riveter” Honored Fireworks explode behind a C-130 area (202) 512-1800. Fax: (202) 512- with Lifetime Achievement Hercules during Celebrate America at 2104. Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC Award and C-17 Flight Yokota AB, Japan. 20402-0001. 18 Five Years of Hard Work Wins USAF photo by Yasuo Osakabe AMC RP 91-2. Dist: X Inaugural Spark Tank Innovation ISSN 1067-8999 Cup for AMC Airman
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