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The McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) between the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas.
U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III from the 517th Airlift Squadron dropping equipment and Airborne Infantry from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division during a joint training exercise.
North Vietnamese forces had surrounded the camp, and learning from the success of air resupply during their 1969 attack on the Ben Het Camp, also established anti-aircraft artillery positions along likely air resupply corridors. On the first day of the siege, two C-7s were diverted from their scheduled missions and staged out of Pleiku to make ...
C-17 Globemaster III: Active 15th Airlift Squadron: Charleston AFB: Global Eagles: C-17 Globemaster III: Active 16th Airlift Squadron: Charleston AFB: Lions: C-17 Globemaster III: Active 17th Airlift Squadron: Charleston AFB: AAA Moving: C-17 Globemaster III: Inactive 19th Airlift Squadron: Travis AFB: C-141B Starlifter: Inactive 20th Airlift ...
183rd Military Airlift Squadron C-124 Globemaster II in South Vietnam [note 1] The C-124 was being retired in the early 1970s and the 172nd airlift mission was changed to theater support, as it equipped with Lockheed C-130E Hercules aircraft in May 1972. It upgraded to new C-130H aircraft in 1980 and continued to fly tactical airlift missions ...
One of the squadron's many firsts was the landing the first C-17 on the ice sheet near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 1999, and landing the first C-17 in North Korea a few weeks later. [ 4 ] Recently, the 7th Airlift Squadron helped man another expeditionary airlift squadron along with the 17th Airlift Squadron from Charleston Air Force Base .
Unlike previous C-17 deployments, this one actually had the squadron itself doing all the flying from "an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia." The 17th helped initiate a whole new concept in C-17 operations in that this was the first time that the airframe was employed like traditional intratheater airlift assets such as the C-12 , C-20 , C ...
The pilot threw the AC-47 and its eight-man crew into a banked turn to engage the Viet Cong in the Tan Son Nhut Air Base area. [5] This C-17 Globemaster III was named after him on January 23, 1998, "The Spirit of John L. Levitow". On the pilot's command, Levitow and the gunner began deploying flares through the open cargo door.