Story by Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade | 455th Air Expeditionary Wing | 10.25.2013
The ground below them was desolate and resembled a ghost town, even the air traffic control tower was empty as a C-130 aircraft landed on Forward Operating Base Salerno's dirt runway to pick up the last, service members who would fly out of the base....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Rachel Martinez | 376th Air Expeditionary Wing | 03.26.2013
In 2009, the Air Force conducted semi-prepared runway operations testing at numerous airfields around the world where they found that the C-17 Globemaster III is capable of taking off and landing on 65 percent of the world's soil. The capability to operate on semi-prepared airfields increases the C-17's ability to deliver much-needed cargo to forward deployed troops in Afghanistan, as was......
