The purchase is for two C-17s, and a third which is the U.S. contribution to the pool, which is manned in the same fashion as the NATO E-3 AWACS aircraft, where the AWACS aircraft are jointly manned by crew from NATO countries.

This operation, which is code-named Operation Resolute, is commanded by the Border Protection Command which is jointly manned by members of the ADF and Customs.

The operational units of the CACW were jointly commanded by both American and Chinese air force officers, and the unit's aircraft were jointly manned by American and Chinese pilots and air crewmen.

It's an Earth Enterprises contract, jointly manned by ESC and PPI, and it came through the Enterprises' Contract Division, man named Eigverst.

Meanwhile, the Awacs transmitted its radar picture to a ground center in eastern Saudi Arabia that is jointly manned by Saudi and American officials but under Saudi command.

The Filipino Maritime Control Surveillance 3001 (MCS-3001), a 35-meter vessel jointly manned by the Philippine Coast Guard and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources personnel, detected two fishing boats at 43 nautical miles east of Balintang Island, an area that is within the overlapped EEZs of both Taiwan and the Philippines.

Under their plan, each of the centers would be jointly manned by Soviet and American officials.

Eighteen members of the pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem Party of God militia were killed early Saturday when they tried to overrun a position jointly manned by Israel and its ally, the South Lebanon Army, north of Israel's border with Lebanon, according to an Israeli Army spokesman.