THE MOBILITYTHE MAGAZINE OF AIR MOBILITY COMMAND | SUMMER 2017 FORUM Rota’s Multimodal Transport is a Joint Effort of Multiple Branches and Nations HURRICANES: Brig Gen Richoux Speaks from Experience Volume 26, No. 2 CONTENTS THE MOBILITY FORUM Summer 2017 AIR MOBILITY COMMAND Gen Carlton Everhart II 3 10 16 26 34 DIRECTOR OF SAFETY Col Michael R. Seiler FROM THE TOP 18 Unit Deployment Manager: Are [email protected] 3 Hurricanes: Brig Gen Richoux You Mission Ready? 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KIM BRUMLEY, Brig Gen Richoux Speaks from Experience Staff Writer othing speaks louder than the Wing Crisis Action Team staff Airmen from the 621st Contingency Re- the voice of experience, in Charleston, he rode out two sponse Wing help unload rice from a World and that certainly holds hurricanes there. Food Program truck in Port-au-Prince, true when it comes to Haiti. The Airmen were working alongside Nsurviving a hurricane. Air Mobility Brig Gen Richoux’s cumulative Haitian citizens to provide relief after the Command (AMC) is lucky to have experience gives him a unique per- nation was struck by Hurricane Matthew. Brig Gen Lenny Richoux as Vice spective—an overview he is proud USAF PHOTO BY TSGT RUSS SCALF Commander of 18th Air Force (AF) to share with readers of The Mobility at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. He Forum. A prime example is Hurricane survived a monster storm as a child Matthew, which approached the Richoux said. “The support after in Louisiana, and his team helps Caribbean in 2016. Richoux said Matthew hit was a team effort that coordinate delivery of aid to regions USTRANSCOM, AMC, 18th AF, continued well after the storm affected by disasters today. and the 618th Air Operations Center moved on.” Many people worked in (AOC) worked with USSOUTHCOM, support of the United States Agency “One of my most vivid childhood USNORTHCOM, 12th AF, and 1st for International Development memories is watching my father AF to help evacuate people from (USAID), who led relief operations. try to keep rising water from our Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and deliver home in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, disaster relief to Haiti. Before the “Joint Task Force [JTF] Matthew as Hurricane Camille approached storm hit, evacuating families from involved more than 400 service the Gulf Coast in 1969,” he recalled. Guantanamo Bay involved six air- members from all military branches. “Our home did not flood that day, craft from Joint Base Charleston and For example, the 621st Contingency but my father always evacuated us Little Rock Air Force Base. Response Wing linked up with the when subsequent storms approached 689th Rapid Port Opening Element New Orleans. Even with Hurricane “The Air Force is part of the DoD and members of the Defense Logistics Katrina, he and my mother came response to natural disasters because Agency. Those three partners melded to my home in Charleston, South of the skills, capabilities, and to open an airfield, allowing troops to Carolina.” As a captain and part of professionalism of our Airmen,” deliver aid faster, saving more lives. Summer 2017 3 MSgt Gabriel Peterson, of the 290th Joint Com- munications Support Element, delivers cooking supplies to citizens of Beaumont, Haiti. USAF PHOTO BY TSGT RUSS SCALF Additional C-17 and C-130 crews and aircraft deployed to support the Marines, moving more than 500 tons of relief supplies and equipment into the country.” Richoux said Joint Base McGuire-Dix- to deliver those supplies. Overall, the storm arrived, and U.S. service Lakehurst Airmen spent three weeks we operated 51 sorties, bringing members were in Haiti providing in Haiti assessing what the airfield people and supplies to and from relief the day after the hurricane hit. needed to operate at surge capacity Haiti. Those flights moved more Planning ensured that all partners and opening the aerial port, allowing than 500 passengers, along with knew in advance what to do. When more aircraft and supplies to enter. humanitarian supplies and gear for it comes to preparing for these types Additionally, Airmen from Dover relief operations.” of storms at home, Richoux again AFB, Delaware, flew two C-17 planes speaks from experience. to shuttle service members and civil- The 18th is preparing for the 2017 ians into the country, while planners hurricane season, as well. “Be ready,” he said. “Hurricanes and operators at the 618th AOC coor- give us ample warning, and there dinated and provided tactical control “There will always be another is no reason to stay put. Evacuate if over the aircraft movements. hurricane, but we don’t know when given the opportunity. Have a plan or where so we must be ready,” with your family—where to go, what Hurricane Matthew’s damage was said Richoux. “We work with the to bring, and how to communicate devastating and widespread, but combatant commands and our if you are separated. This applies Richoux said helping the USAID partners so we can respond to to any natural disaster. The FEMA saved lives, particularly in Haiti. requests from the Federal Emergency website at www.ready.gov is a great Management Agency [FEMA], place to start. Most important is lis- “Coordinated efforts provided states, or nations. We also review tening to your local officials. If they hundreds of thousands of pounds plans regularly so the 18th AF and tell you to evacuate, please do it. of food, generators, hygiene kits, Expeditionary Center enterprises are You can rebuild homes and replace and medical supplies,” he said. ready to go when called.” belongings … but not families.” “JTF Matthew brought in more than 440 tons of supplies in the He added that the upfront In closing, Brig Gen Richoux first two weeks—but only because preparation helps Airmen respond emphasized how invaluable Airmen Mobility Airmen helped open the faster and more efficiently. Last are in natural disasters. airfield and enabled Army and year, during Hurricane Matthew, Marine helicopters and Ospreys assets were actually in place before “They make these missions happen because they are the best at what they do,” he added. “AMC, 18th Brig Gen Richoux says from 2005 through 2008, the mobility enterprise AF, Expeditionary Center, Guard, responded to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Ike, and Gustav by: and Reserve leadership are • Coordinating more than 1,500 sorties, immensely proud of them. They provide the skills, capabilities, and • Moving more than 25,000 passengers, professionalism you desperately • Evacuating more than 3,600 patients, and want when a disaster strikes—and they provide them quickly. When • Delivering more than 13 million pounds of gear and supplies. people see an American aircraft, When Super Storm Sandy hit in 2012, the mobility enterprise flew 342 they know help is coming. This sorties, moving 950 passengers and carrying more than 7.6 million hurricane season, we are again ready pounds of gear and supplies. to respond to whatever the weather may have in store.” 4 The Mobility Forum So Long, Fellow Airmen By COL MICHAEL SEILER, AMC Director of Safety t has been a dream to be part of Safety is about the We are working toward an incred- an incredible safety team and see culture of a unit or ible safety culture applauded firsthand its positive impact.