Air Mobility Command officials have set the date for Rodeo 2007—July 22-28, 2007, at McChord AFB, Wash. The international competition will comprise more than 100 teams and 2,500 USAF, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve Command, and allied forces airmen. Maj. Gen. Scott Gray, commander of the Air Mobility Warfare Center and Rodeo 2007 boss, says that AMC considers Rodeo essential as a forum for allied forces to share tactics and techniques they can use to improve operations in the war on terror.
A helicopter instructor pilot failed to take sufficient corrective action in time to fix the mistakes of a student pilot taking off from a slope, resulting in a rollover that caused nearly $11 million in damages to a TH-1H chopper last spring.