Members of USAF’s 818th Contingency Response Group/24th Air Expeditionary Group are processing hundreds of thousands of pounds of relief supplies coming into Pakistan every day. The groups’ members, which have been drawn primarily from Air Mobility Command’s 621st Contingency Response Wing and 305th Air Mobility Wing, both at McGuire AFB, N.J., comprise aerial porters, ramp controllers, aircraft maintainers, ground equipment mechanics, and special tactics and medical personnel. The groups also have finance and contracting airmen, working to ensure the team has the goods and services it needs to keep working.
Special-ops aviators, a physicist from the intelligence community, and an enlisted Marine with decades of deployments: U.S. Space Command’s military and civilian leaders who spoke May 7 were as likely to come from strictly space backgrounds as not. These are some of the day’s insights from inside the command, which…