US Air Force Technical Sergeant Kenneth Holmes keeps an eye on the pallet his team is pushing onto a 25K loader. As part of Project Trans-Am, this US Air Force Reserve aerial port team moved $100,000 dollars worth of excess war reserve medical supplies onto a C-141C Starlifter aircraft from the 89th Airlift Squadron, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The pallets of supplies were flown from Shaw Air Force Base, North Carolina, to Grissom Air Reserve Force, Indiana. Due to resizing, surplus medical supplies were donated to native North American-Indian communities. They will identify what they need from an inventory list. Then the supplies from the pallets will be repackaged and ...

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[Complete] Scene Caption: US Air Force Technical Sergeant Kenneth Holmes keeps an eye on the pallet his team is pushing onto a 25K loader. As part of Project Trans-Am, this US Air Force Reserve aerial port team moved $100,000 dollars worth of excess war reserve medical supplies onto a C-141C Starlifter aircraft from the 89th Airlift Squadron, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The pallets of supplies were flown from Shaw Air Force Base, North Carolina, to Grissom Air Reserve Force, Indiana. Due to resizing, surplus medical supplies were donated to native North American-Indian communities. They will identify what they need from an inventory list. Then the supplies from the pallets will be repackaged and delivered over land. Similar in logistics to a humanitarian airlift operation, Project Trans-Am is part of Innovative Readiness Training (IRT).

Country: Unknown

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Lance Cheung, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public
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