Back from a deployment to the Philippines under Operation Enduring Freedom is one of the C-12J turboprops now stationed at Yokota AB, Japan, and the airmen to fly and support it. Just this summer, Yokota traded its C-21s for C-12Js. The Yokota team, during its first C-12 deployment, flew nearly 265 hours, transporting 552 passengers and more than 57,000 pounds of cargo over the two month deployment. (Report by A1C Eric Summers.)
The Pentagon is readying a slew of reforms to its acquisition practices designed to speed up the military’s process for buying weapons and systems and structure its program offices to prioritize competition and commercial capabilities, according to a draft memo.
