Little Rock AFB, Ark, will receive eight Air National Guard C-130 airlifters and 10 Air Force Reserve Command C-130s on a temporary basis to establish a C-130 formal training unit, according to the Air Force’s proposed force structure realignments for Fiscal 2011, issued Tuesday. The seven ANG units sending aircraft are: the 109th Airlift Wing in Schenectady, N.Y. (one aircraft); 136th AW at NAS JRB Fort Worth, Tex. (one); 139th AW at Rosecrans, Mo. (two); 152nd AW in Reno, Nev. (one); 153rd AW in Cheyenne, Wyo. (one); 165th AW in Savannah, Ga. (one); and 166th AW in New Castle, Del. (one). The AFRC wings involved are: the 94th AW at Dobbins ARB, Ga. (one); 440th AW at Pope AFB, N.C. (four); 908th AW at Maxwell AFB, Ala. (one); 910th AW in Youngstown, Ohio (two); 911th AW in Pittsburgh, Pa. (one); and 914th AW in Niagara Falls, N.Y. (one). (Fiscal 2011 force structure announcement and briefing charts, caution large file.)
Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held meetings with defense leaders from the Philippines, Japan, and South Korea during a trip to the Indo-Pacific this week.