America's Mobility Airmen Break Records Delivering Goods To Afghanistan

Bagram Airfield air terminal operations center personnel and 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron aircrew members load supplies onto the cargo deck of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, in May 2011. Master Sgt. William Greer / Air Force

Record Cargo Delivered To Afghanistan In 2011 -- Military Times

Mobility airmen dropped a record amount of cargo last year in Afghanistan, delivering about 80 million pounds of supplies across the west Asian country.

The annual record marks an increase of about 33 percent over 2010, when mobility airmen dropped about 60 million pounds of cargo to Afghanistan.

“To put that in some historical perspective, in the Korean War we only dropped a little over 30 million pounds total,” said Maj. Tom Lankford, Air Mobility Command Combat Tactics Branch chief and director of operations. “We nearly doubled that in 2010, and [this year] we dropped nearly 80 million pounds.”

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My Comment: Pakistan's closure of U.S./NATO supply lines has forced the air force into expanding their air supply operations .... an expensive proposition to all who are involved. Hmmmm .... this is probably the reason why America's top commander in the region is going to Pakistan to repair military ties.