Defense acquisitions : strategic airlift gap has been addressed, but tactical airlift plans are evolving as key issues have not been resolved : report to the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives.
DOD used nearly 700 aircraft, as well as commercial and leased aircraft, to carry about 3 million troops and 800,000 tons of cargo in support of wartime, peacetime, and humanitarian efforts in 2008. C-5s and C-17s move troops and cargo internationally (strategic airlift) and C-130s are the primary a...
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