Table ofContents Association Business 2005 A/TA Board of Offi cers & Convention Staff................................................... 2 Chairman’s Comments........................................................................................... 4 President’s Message ................................................................................................. 5 Secretary’s Notes ..................................................................................................... 5 Association Round-Up ......................................................................................... 6-8 Where in World Are They? 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A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2005 1 2 A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2005 A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2005 3 Awesome Mother Nature In today’s vernacular “awesome” is used Chairman’s in place of words like great, magnifi cent, outstanding, etc., but its original meaning is closer to “fear mixed with dread.” The year Comments 2005 has shown that, when used in connec- tion with Mother Nature, awesome, unfor- As I write this, Miss Jane and I have just returned from the change tunately, is much more akin to its original of command ceremony held at Scott AFB for TRANSCOM and Air meaning. Mobility Command. The Secretary of Defense served as the host for the The year started with the world facing the event and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff joined him as the aftermath of one of history’s most terrible presiding offi cial for the TRANSCOM ceremony. They were joined by humanitarian disasters, the tsunami in the the Chief of Staff of the Air Force who presided at the AMC change of Indian Ocean, which spread its fearsome, command and General Handy’s retirement ceremony. dreadful waves outward, destroying nearly As each of the offi cials rose to speak, their remarks were focused on everything in their wake. From late spring how critical TRANSCOM and AMC are to the execution of the National and throughout the summer, wildfi res raged Security Strategy and what an important role air mobility plays in throughout the American west causing more Gen Ronald R. Fogleman meeting the challenges posed by supporting a global war on terror widespread destruction. Then, at the end of USAF, Ret and being at the forefront of providing humanitarian relief to fellow August, Mother Nature, in the guise of Hur- Americans devastated by a natural disaster of historic proportions. ricane Katrina, visited her fury on the Gulf It was very gratifying to see that the senior leadership knows and appreciates what our air Coast region of the American south, caus- mobility troops do. ing devastation in an area of nearly 90,000 Secretary Rumsfeld praised the square miles. Awesome indeed. accomplishments of the air mobility “…you can be proud of the role While all of these events underscore the forces as well as the leadership of dangerous and deadly effects that can be General Handy. He reminded the you have played in advancing wrought by the power of Mother Nature, audience that during the past several the cause of freedom and they also have another thing in common years the mobility forces have moved – the awesome, in this case meaning great, more people and material than at democracy and in easing magnifi cent and outstanding, response anytime in our history. the suffering of your fellow of America’s air mobility forces. Without General Myers commented on hesitation, the men and women of the how the mobility troops make the Americans, as well as others world’s most highly trained and resource- near impossible seem easy. He related ful humanitarian team, brought the world’s a conversation with the President in around the globe.” most