Providing Seamless Airlift Support

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Providing Seamless Airlift Support
Air Force Print News | MSgt. Scott Wagers | January 22, 2008

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany - Nearly 60 Air National Guardsmen finished a 10-week tour of duty Jan. 11 with the 38th Airlift Squadron here where they'd collectively hauled more than 283 tons of cargo throughout Europe in 109 sorties on C-130 Hercules aircraft.

Their mission was a testament of how seamlessly Guard, Reserve and active-duty members have learned to work together as a total force to get the mission done.

"Active, Guard and Reserve Airmen in this day and age can't do anything without each other and have no other choice but to work together. At Ramstein (Air Base), you have the perfect example of that total force," said Col. Larry Gallogly, a Rhode Island Air National Guardsman and the acting 38th Airlift Squadron commander during the final two weeks of that rotation.

With the support provided by the 38th Airlift Squadron's Guard and Reserve members, Ramstein Air Base active-duty 37th Airlift Squadron members don't have to shoulder the U.S. Air Forces in Europe's airlift mission all by themselves, the colonel said.

"Covering missions throughout Europe and to the desert while performing local training missions is a tremendous burden on (the active duty), so the Guard and Reserve can come over here and relieve some of that burden," he said.


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