Berlin airlift anyone?... (I know most of them were civvy)
Seriously though, I got a look in the cockpit of a C!7 a few years back and last year a ride-along in the cockpit of an A400. Very impressive!
I think I saw a quote about the uplift of the USAF during GW2 and the Allied transport aircraft shifted more tonnage than during the whole of the Berlin Airlift.
Not saying we have the force structure right (which is what we can afford as long as we are still able to pick and choose which of other peoples' conflicts we get involved in)
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