Airman recount helping fly Afghan refugees to safety
Be ready. That’s the message Lt. Col. Alex Pelbath had for cadets Thursday during the 29th annual National Character and Leadership Symposium at the Air Force Academy.
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Be ready. That’s the message Lt. Col. Alex Pelbath had for cadets Thursday during the 29th annual National Character and Leadership Symposium at the Air Force Academy.
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The four-engine Boeing jet transported 823 Afghan refugees on a single flight at the end of the war in Afghanistan.
There are plenty of massive military airplanes out there that have us wondering how such incredible beasts can take to the skies, but few of them are as impressive as the C-17 Globemaster III, a mammoth of a workhorse that has been around in one form or another ever since the 1990s.
The Rapid Raptor program is designed to ensure that at least four F-22 jets can attack anywhere on an urgent, fast-strike basis across the globe with ready crew, C-17 Globemaster III support, and fuel and weapons.