Table of Contents Association Business 2007 A/TA Board of Officers & Convention Staff ................................................... 2 Chairman’s Comments. .......................................................................................... 4 President’s Message ................................................................................................. 5 Secretary’s Notes ..................................................................................................... 5 Association Round-Up ............................................................................................ 6 AIRLIFT/TANKER QUARTERLY Association & Chapter Contacts ........................................................................... 72 Volume 15 • Number 4 • Fall 2007 Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is published four Features times a year by the Airlift/Tanker Association, Col. Barry F. Creighton, USAF (Ret.), Secretary, 1708 A Farewell Message from General McNabb. .................................................. 8 Cavelletti Court, Virginia Beach, VA 23454. (757) 838-3037. Postage paid at Belleville, Illinois. A Welcome Message from General Lichte. .................................................. 10 Subscription rate: $40.00 per year. Change of address requires four weeks notice. Cover Story The Airlift/Tanker Association is a non-profit The Many Faces of AIr Mobility: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow ....14-21 professional organization dedicated to providing a forum for people interested in improving the Airlift/Tanker Hall of Fame .......................................................................... 22-23 capability of U.S. air mobility forces. Membership 2007 A/TA Hall of Fame Inductee ................................................................ 24-25 in the Airlift/Tanker Association is $40 annually or $110 for three years. Full-time student membership 2007 A/TA General Robert E. “Dutch” Huyser Award Winners .................. 26-27 is $15 per year. Life membership is $500. Corporate 2007 A/TA Young Leader Award Winners.................................................... 28-32 membership includes five individual memberships and is $1500 per year. Membership dues include a 2007 A/TA Colonel Gail S. Halvorsen Award Winner ...................................... 35 subscription to Airlift/Tanker Quarterly, and are subject to change. 2007 A/TA Specialized Mission Award Winner ................................................ 35 Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is published for the 2007 A/TA General P. K. Carlton Award for Valor Winner ............................... 39 use of subscribers, officers, advisors and members of the Airlift/Tanker Association. Mobility Heritage & Heroes .............................................................................. 40 The appearance of articles or advertisements, including inserts, in Airlift/Tanker Quarterly White Paper: does not constitute an endorsement by the Air Mobility Innovation During Wartime: The USAFE AMOCC, 2004-2006 Airlift/Tanker Association, the Air Mobility by Colonel Phil Bossert, USAF .................................................................... 42-55 Command, the Department of the Air Force or the Department of Defense, of the viewpoints, A Salute to A/TA Corporate Members .......................................................... 56-69 products or services mentioned or advertised. Guest Editorial by Col Gregory P. Cook (USAF ret) .......................................... 70 ©2007. Articles appearing in this publication may not be reprinted, in any form, without prior written approval from the Airlift/Tanker Association. Alphabetical List of Advertisers Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is quarterly news cycle- AAI ......................................................................................................................... 38 dependent and is distributed as follows: Winter: January / February / March; Spring: April /May/ Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. ...................................................................Back Cover June; Summer: July/August/September; Fall: October / Boeing Company, The .......................................................................................... 44 November / December [actual distribution dates vary]. The copy deadline for submitted stories, articles, Bose Corporation .................................................................................................. 51 letters, etc., is as follows: Winter: December 30th; Cessna ................................................................................................................... 41 Spring: March 30th; Summer: June 30th; Fall Coastal Aircraft Parts ............................................................................................... 3 [Convention Edition]: August 30th. Airlift/Tanker Quarterly accepts advertising Derco ..................................................................................................................... 71 for the inside front and back covers for the FlightSafety International ............................................................ Inside Back Cover Winter, Spring and Summer Editions; and for throughout the Fall Convention Edition. FMC Technologies ................................................................................................. 34 Gulfstream............................................................................................................. 12 EDITORIAL STAFF: Lockheed Martin Corporation .............................................................................. 17 Gen. Ron Fogleman, USAF, Retired Chairman, Board of Officers Lockheed Martin Corporation .............................................................................. 33 Northrup Grumman .................................................................................... 36 & 37 Mr. Collin R. Bakse Editor and Art Director Northrup Grumman ............................................................................................. 48 Ms. Dawn L. Bakse Parker Aerospace .........................................................................Inside Front Cover Editorial and Advertising Coordinator Pratt & Whitney .................................................................................................... 47 Lt. Col. Nicky McCollough, USAF, Retired Rockwell Collins ................................................................................................... 11 Business Manager Sat Comm.............................................................................................................. 54 Col. Ronald E. Owens, USAF Retired Editorial Advisor Spirit Aero ............................................................................................................. 52 Col. Gregory Cook, USAF Telephonics ............................................................................................................. 9 Public Affairs Coordinator Thales .................................................................................................................... 43 PRINTED IN U.S.A. A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2007 A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2007 Home of the Brave, Chairman’s Land of the Free! Most Americans know the first line of the Star-spangled Banner – “Oh, say can you see Comments by the dawn’s early light?” – as well as the remaining lines of the first verse of a poem written by Francis Scott Key, but far fewer Welcome to Nashville…and the 2007 National Convention. The know there are three more verses, each laced Association, working with Air Mobility Command, has put together with cultural and patriotic symbolism. what we sincerely believe to be one of the top professional, educational Key, a young Washington attorney who, and social events of the year for the Air Mobility community. Our after sailing out to the British fleet to secure theme, “The Many Faces of Air Mobility, Yesterday, Today and the release of a captured American during Tomorrow,” places an emphasis on the individual as being the key to the War of 1812, was detained by the British the success of the team providing America with the unique ability to and witnessed, from aboard ship, the bom- project and sustain combat power or humanitarian aid anywhere in bardment of Fort McHenry during the night the world. of 13-14 September 1814. The convention gives us the opportunity to look back on our Defended under the command of Major accomplishments and look forward to the challenges of the future. George Armistead, the fort withstood the at- Gen Ronald R. Fogleman During the last half of the Twentieth Century airpower changed tack, and the sight of the American flag fly- USAF, Ret the nature of warfare. Mobility forces played a major role in that ing at dawn inspired the four verses of Key’s transformation. That legacy continues. By any measure of merit, 2007 has been a busy poem, which was written on the way ashore year for the Air Mobility Command Total Force team of Active, Guard, Reserve and civilian in the morning. personnel. Unflagging support of our Coalition Forces engaged in the War on Terror, numerous After circulating as a handbill, the lyrics were humanitarian efforts and the need to train has given the Air Force and Department of Defense published in a Baltimore newspaper, under the senior leadership a new appreciation for operational tempo when they see an AMC mission title “Defense of Fort McHenry,”on 20 Septem- being launched or recovered every ninety seconds on a sustained 24/7 basis. ber 1814.