The Strategic Airlift Capability fleet at Papa AB, Hungary, has exceeded 1,000 missions. In Boeing’s five years of support, it has achieved a 94 percent mission-capable rate on the C-17 Globemaster IIIs, states a Sept. 3 release. Ten NATO countries, as well as Finland and Sweden operate the SAC fleet of three C-17s, which is part of the consortium’s Heavy Airlift Wing. “The Boeing team has been an important member of the SAC family from the start and contributes invaluably to the HAW flying safe missions for the nations,” said airlift commander Royal Netherlands Air Force Col. Frank Rombouts. Boeing uses “a comprehensive performance-based logistics program” to provide maintenance, engineering, and spares, states the release. The company has more than 60 people supporting the consortium. (See Papa Knows Best.)
The top Air Force commander on on the Japanese island of Okinawa has clamped down alcohol and issued a curfew for junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians at Kadena Air Base for the next month. The order came roughly two weeks after a U.S. Marine was arrested for allegedly robbing and…