airdrop operation

Eighty-three percent of humanitarian needs have been provided by the airdrop operation."

It operates C-130 Hercules aircraft for airlift and airdrop operations.

Train and equip C-17 aircrews for global air-land and airdrop operations.

It operated C-5 Galaxy aircraft training pilots for airlift and airdrop operations.

Supports theater commanders' requirements for combat delivery capability through tactical airland/airdrop operations and humanitarian aeromedical evacuations.

Promise of Truce Role The United States hopes that once the airdrop operation begins, some European countries might be persuaded to join.

The two people on board the teddy bear flight, Tomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, spent about a year preparing for the airdrop operation.

In 1973 he was an Emergency Relief Officer in Chad, there he led the first ever UN airdrop operation.

The airdrop operation was dubbed "Teddybear Airdrop Minsk 2012" by its Studio Total organizers.

Studio Total refused to comply with the summons and instead offered to discuss the airdrop operation directly with President Lukashenko if he visits Sweden.

Before the airdrop operation began, the Pentagon said that supplies dropped from 10,000 feet could be spread over a distance of as much as 5,000 yards, even in light winds.

A later, company-sized airdrop operation at Dombås proved a failure, however, as the unit quickly ran out of supplies and was taken prisoner by the Norwegian Army.

Painted in U.S. Army Air Forces markings, these aircraft are regularly flown for use in historical reenactments of paratrooper airdrop operations.

Provide the Department of Defense with highly trained, highly motivated, combat-ready aircrews who execute the best tactical airlift/airdrop operations in the United States Air Force.

They will be working in conjunction with the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in direct support of the Army for airlift and airdrop operations.

In a telephone interview later, the Secretary General said he would tell President Clinton that he would welcome United States participation in an airdrop operation "only as long as it is under United Nations command."

Considering flight safety as well as ground safety, the DZSTL coordinates closely with the DZ safety officer to observe and evaluate all factors that could adversely affect the safety of the airdrop operation.

A third mission was flown tonight, to Konjevic in eastern Bosnia, from Rhein-Main Air Base in Frankfurt, where the airdrop operation is based, but a senior Defense Department official said there might be "a pause" after that to assess the situation.

The USAF HC-130P/N, also known as the Combat King aircraft, can fly in the day against a reduced threat; however, crews normally fly night, low-level, air refueling and airdrop operations using night vision goggles (NVG).

The American airdrop operation will be carried out without the protective cover of American combat aircraft, but Mr. Christopher said that the chance that a plane would be attacked was "quite remote," and that it was the responsibility of the Pentagon to determine what contingency planning might be necessary.