Air Mobility Command has developed a transportation specific “lean concepts” initiative called Terminal 2010. Officials expect the new initiative to “institutionalize continuous process improvement in the areas of reliability, velocity, and decreased costs.”
Retired Col. Carlyle "Smitty" Harris, known for introducing the "tap code" by which American POWs in North Vietnam could surreptitiously communicate with one another, died July 6. Harris was brutalized by the North Vietnamese over almost eight years of captivity.