Air Mobility Command has just celebrated transporting home from Southwest Asia the 500,000th passenger for rest and recuperation leave since AMC began the R and R flights in 2003. TSgt. John Jung reports that AMC officials greeted the half-millionth troop at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport last week. AMC-organized commercial airlifts fly 420 military and civilian personnel from the war zone daily to two hubs in the US, Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta.
The Pentagon needs a Digital Command and a Digital Warfare Corps, along with other changes, to take advantage of critical new technologies, according to a think tank founded by former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt.
