Air Force Reveals C-17 Beddown Plans To Congress

By Jonathan M. Block, Laura M. Colarusso / April 16, 2002 at 5:00 AM
During a briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs Lt. Gen. Duncan McNabb discussed the service's future mobility force structure and highlighted beddown plans for service's planned fleet of 180 C-17 airlifters, according to documents obtained by InsideDefense.com . The Air Force intends to expand the number of C-17 bases from three to 10, a draft copy of the "Mobility Force Structure Briefing" states. In addition to the 76 aircraft delivered by...

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