US Transportation Command is changing how it moves personnel, supplies, and weapons around the world, per the 2003 mandate handed down by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who designated TRANSCOM the department’s “distribution process owner.” According to TRANSCOM’s top enlisted man, Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant Kenneth McQuiston, who spoke to a group of senior enlisted personnel at the Pentagon last week, the command is not trying to take control of supply management but does want to maintain visibility over where items are within the chain. “Wal-Mart’s shelves are never empty,” McQuiston said, noting that command officials recently met with the company’s executives, who, he said, “know where all their stuff is at all times.”
U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagles have roared out of Barnes Air National Guard Base, Mass., for the last time. The 104th Fighter Wing’s last three F-15Cs departed the base Oct. 23 for the “Boneyard” at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., ending the aircraft's era on the frontlines of homeland defense.
