Airmen, sailors, and soldiers are working together at Bagram AB, Afghanistan, to keep earthquake relief assistance flowing in to northern Pakistan. Maintainers for both the Air Force’s EC-130 and the Navy’s E-6B have been working with the 82nd Airborne Division to build containerized delivery systems for air drops. The air-water-ground team has assembled 150 containers since the earthquake relief operations started earlier this month, providing an estimated 80,000 pounds of aid in both land and air drops.
Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost—a trailblazer and one of the first 10 women to reach a four-star rank across the U.S. military—retired and passed control of U.S. Transportation Command to Air Force Gen. Randall Reed on Oct. 4, finishing an eventful tenure at TRANSCOM.