Table of Contents Association Business 2010 A/TA Board of Officers & Convention Staff ................................................... 2 Chairman’s Comments. .......................................................................................... 4 President’s Message ................................................................................................. 5 Secretary’s Notes ..................................................................................................... 5 Association Round-Up ............................................................................................ 6 Association & Chapter Contacts ........................................................................... 72 AIRLIFT/TANKER QUARTERLY Features Volume 18 • Number 4 • Fall 2010 A Welcome Message from General Johns. .................................................. 8-9 Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is published four Cover Story times a year by the Airlift/Tanker Association, Mobility Airmen: The Heart of America’s Global Reach ..................10-23 9312 Convento Terrace, Fairfax, Virginia 22031. 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Esterline/CMC Electronics .................................................................................... 43 EDITORIAL STAFF: FlightSafety International ..................................................................................... 74 Gen. Walt Kross, USAF, Retired Gulfstream............................................................................................................. 48 Chairman, Board of Officers Lockheed Martin Corporation ........................................................................ 17, 47 Mr. Collin R. Bakse Editor and Art Director Northrup Grumman ............................................................................................. 21 Mr. Doug Lynch Parker Aerospace ................................................................................................... 73 Business Manager Pratt & Whitney .................................................................................................... 70 Col. Ronald E. 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A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2010 1 2 A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2010 A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2010 3 Ruminations on the Theme While searching for a way to verbally illustrate this year’s convention theme, Chairman’s “Mobility Airmen: The Heart of America’s Global Reach,” I looked up two key words, mobility and heart, in both the dictionary and Comments the thesaurus. It is amazing how well these two words together define the job, and the attitude with which America’s air mobility Welcome to Orlando and the 42nd Airlift/Tanker Association warriors perform it for our country. Convention. And on behalf of our co-sponsor, Air Mobility Mobility, though simply defined as “the Command, welcome also to our Air Mobility Symposium. ability to move,” also embodies such ideas Our theme this year, “Mobility Airman: The Heart of as adaptability, flexiblity, versatility, and America’s Global Reach,” focuses on the men and women who adjustability; and, Heart, as used in the provide that Global Reach around the world everyday – as well theme means “the vital part or essence,” and as those who stand behind them supporting in substantive incorporates such concepts as compassion, and intangible ways. This year’s theme honors you all. And empathy, enthusiasm, determination, our aperture for this honoring is wide and inclusive. resolve, purpose, courage and spunk – an This year’s theme was on our minds almost immediately accurate description of the men and women after we left Nashville last November and has totally affected who comprise America’s air mobility team! our preparation and planning for this year’s Convention and It also occurred to me that I could use the Symposium. You will notice one most visible change immediately. We words of airmen themselves to illustrate the General Walter Kross have chosen not to induct any nominees into the A/TA Hall overall feeling implicit in the theme. USAF, Retired For instance, while on the ground in Haiti of Fame this year. Our Hall of Fame, conceived in the 1970s, coordinating airport and command and established in the late 1980s, has only 20 individual inductees – plus our AE Legacy Team control operations and enabling the delivery and our Air Refueling Pioneer Aircrews (our most recent induction; our first-ever aircrew of vital emergency response personnel and induction, and