Air Mobility Command has embarked on a competition to find a commercial service for aerial delivery functions across the command. By contracting out this service, AMC officials expect to be able to eliminate 93 enlisted positions at four facilities: Charleston AFB, S.C.; Dyess AFB, Tex.; McChord AFB, Wash.; and Pope AFB, N.C. The list of aerial delivery functions comprise building and rigging airdrop loads and aircraft loads; packing, repairing, and drying parachutes; scheduling and coordinating load operations; and performing airdrop inspections, aerial control, and drop-zone recovery. We are eager to learn just how many commercial firms provide “drop-zone recovery”
Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, nominee to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Defense Department needs to upgrade its electronic warfare capability and its EW training ranges; just as his predecessor said at his own confirmation hearing.