The C-5 program office anticipates Congress in its fiscal year 2017 defense policy legislation will release the Air Force from a requirement that dictates it place all retiring C-5s into recallable storage. The service currently has 22 C-5As in recallable, or SD 1000, storage and five more are scheduled to be inducted into storage when they retire in FY-17. Eliminating that mandate would allow the service to have access to C-5 parts that could help alleviate complications related to diminishing...
