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Transcript: AIR NATIONAL GUARD VITAL TO TOTAL EXPEDITIONARY AEROSPACE FORCE
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- September 27, 1999
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AFPN) -- The airplanes will still fly thousands
of
tons of cargo and fuel and be armed with an intimidating array of
missiles
and bullets. The fundamental job will be pretty much the same for
members
of the Air National Guard.
But the way the pilots, navigators, crew chiefs, loadmasters
and
maintenance people are deployed is being drastically changed this
month
for virtually all of the Air Guard's units involved in the Air Force'
s
10 new aerospace expeditionary forces.
"This is the biggest cultural change in the Air Force since the
separation from the Army (in 1947)," observed Col. Larry Brooks, Air
National
Guard deputy director ...