U.S. Transportation Command in 2002
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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, ILL (USTCNS) --- The U.S. military was extremely busy in 2002. From training exercises to humanitarian assistance to peacekeeping to combat operations, American troops around the world served at a monumental operational pace.
The Defense Transportation System, managed here by the U.S. Transportation Command, provides the global mobility that allows the strategic projection of power by our nation?s armed forces. USTRANSCOM accomplishes this through its Transportation Component Commands: the Air Mobility Command, the Military Sealift Command and the Military Traffic Management Command.
?Because of USTRANSCOM?s responsiveness and global reach, the command is always in motion,? says Air Force General John W. Handy, commander. ?At every moment of every day, around the globe, our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, merchant mariners, civilians, contractors, and commercial partners are accomplishing a wide array of mobility missions ? and doing so in an outstanding fashion.?
During the past year, in addition to Operations Enduring Freedom (global war against terrorism) and Noble Eagle (homeland defense and civil support missions), USTRANSCOM continued to support a steady series of exercises, special missions, and humanitarian deployments around the world.
According to Handy, ?commitments like these are rapidly blurring the distinction between peacetime and wartime operational tempos.?
Air mobility missions have reached an average of over 1,900 per week; average weekly ship movements are at 25; and the command now has more than 10,000 ground shipments per week.
?I am extremely proud of today?s USTRANSCOM and honored to lead the highly professional men and women who comprise our national defense transportation team,? says Handy.
Actions taken to defend the homeland while deploying, sustaining, and redeploying the warfighter continuously demands prolonged efforts from all components.
?The mobility requirements transcend the war on terrorism, and throughout 2002 the entire DTS team managed a full plate of movement support requirements without missing a beat,? Handy says proudly.
· AMC tankers have flown over 6,755 missions refueling 12,246 aircraft supporting combat air patrols over major U.S. cities and sporting events. More than 80% of these were Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard missions.
· In January, USTRANSCOM supported the establishment of Camp X-Ray by rapidly deploying people and equipment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Chartered ships from MSC brought the bulk of needed supplies. By September, airlift missions had delivered over 600 detainees supported by over 100 aerial refueling missions to make the long flights from Afghanistan.
· Also in January and into February, USTRANSCOM provided support to the Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah by transporting more than 3,600 federal personnel.
· Since Afghanistan is landlocked, initially all assets had to be flown into the theater. USTRANSCOM has worked to improve the infrastructure and leverage sealift and surface options when airlift was not absolutely necessary. Those efforts were extremely successful, and as a result, increasingly more assets have been moved more efficiently by using sealift.
· In March, USTRANSCOM transported AH-64 Apache attack helicopters in support of Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan. The complex direct delivery took only eight days as a result of detailed and collaborative planning.
· By the end of July, AMC deployed over 1,500 passengers and almost 3,000 short tons of equipment using 20 aerial refueling missions to the Philippines helping to stem terrorist activities in that country.
· During the summer months, USTRANSCOM deployed specially equipped C-130 aircraft and crews to battle forest fires throughout many western states.
· Operation Enduring Freedom required the first contingency deployment of USTRANSCOM?s Joint Patient Movement and Requirements Center, a patient evacuation management cell coordinating the movement of wounded personnel.
· USTRANSCOM remained engaged in providing the rotation of U.S. forces participating in peacekeeping operations in the Balkans, and for ongoing missions to enforce the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq.
· Counter-drug operations support required 62 airlift missions.
· In July and again in December, USTRANSCOM responded by transporting humanitarian assistance to the Pacific following damage from typhoons.
· USTRANSCOM is also the supported command for Operation Deep Freeze, the ongoing National Science Foundation research program in Antartica.
Those events are just a small representation of the missions performed in 2002 by USTRANSCOM and the component commands: AMC, MTMC and MSC. In order to perform operationally, these commands are always focused on readiness and ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the future.
· Under USTRANSCOM?s oversight, MTMC developed and instituted the Security Escort Vehicle Program to safeguard munitions shipments within the U.S.
· USTRANSCOM and AMC have partnered with several agencies to develop and refine technologies to help further protect the strategic airlift fleet.
· USTRANSCOM and AMC have also partnered with other agencies to develop new and powerful cargo screening technologies.
· USTRANSCOM has initiated information and intelligence sharing with all four commercial transportation sectors as well as the Transportation Security Agency.
· USTRANSCOM and MTMC evaluated three different pilot programs for military personal property shipment with an eye toward streamlining and simplifying the household goods movement process.
· USTRANSCOM along with the Maritime Administration and other National Port Readiness Network partners have developed clear responsibilities for port security and procedures for the command, as well as MSC and the U.S. Coast Guard, to protect strategic sealift loading procedures.
· A key responsibility of USTRANSCOM to the warfighter is in-transit visibility of people and equipment. The Global Transportation Network tracks from port of embarkation to port of debarkation with information provided by more than 100 different sources. At the peak of Operation Enduring Freedom, GTN processed over 2 million transactions per day, with over 10,000 daily customers requesting information on strategic and tactical lift.
The past year has indeed been a busy one for the military and USTRANSCOM.
?On any given day, the command can be found providing critical strategic transportation to a host of U.S. and international agencies,? says Handy. ?This is a phenomenal undertaking, yet it is also a clear reality of today?s global environment . . . No matter what the mission assigned, the Department of Defense?s first responders are the men and women who operate the air, land and sea components of USTRANSCOM.?
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