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Military Transportation Network * USA - Keeps U.S. military running
Scott Air Force Base, Ill,USA -McClatchy Newspapers/BND.com, by DAVE MONTGOMERY -19 July 2008: -- ... Each day, hundreds of airplanes, ships, rail cars and trucks - which Transcom operates through three component commands - engage in a by-the-clock ritual of moving cargo and people across the globe... With a $10 billion budget and nearly 138,000 personnel worldwide, Transcom operates like a giant multinational corporation, measuring its output in statistical superlatives. The amount of cargo shipped through Transcom in the post-Sept. 11 era, for example, would fill a line of tractor trailers from Seattle to Miami... Ships with Transcom's Military Sealift Command have plucked survivors from tsunamis and sinking ships. Evacuation crews with the Air Mobility Command have rushed wounded soldiers to lifesaving treatment in the United States. The Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command choreographs a daily parade of trucks and rail cars laden with supplies and equipment for troops overseas... The 2001 terrorist attacks and the deployment of combat forces overseas have infused Transcom with an urgent wartime tempo. Since shortly after Sept. 11, Transcom has logged 103,000 airlift missions, 786 shiploads and, in the United States, 2.4 million truck shipments and 191,000 rail car shipments... Gen. Norton Schwartz's (Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command, headquartered at Scott Air Force Base) assessment, Transcom in many ways is like an offensive lineman, often unheralded but always indispensable... Labels: military transportation
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