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Explores ways that the military could increase its skill to give a contribution to the recommended, worldwide power-projection potential of the us.

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5 compares the range of three estimates of SBCT required airlift missions discussed in this section with estimates of requirements for light, Stryker, and heavy BCTs. The light and heavy BCT ______________ 7 The vehicles and trailers produced 226 aircraft loads, and we computed them to weigh 11,400 STONs. Based upon various internal Army estimates of SBCT weight in unpublished reports and briefings, the unit basic load, and initial sustainment cargo, we used a total organic SBCT weight of 13,400 STONs consisting of a unit weight of approximately 12,800 STONs (vehicles, trailers, and other equipment) and consumable cargo of 600 STONs (a rough estimate of the maximum of the unit basic load or three days of sustainment for each class of supply).

11 shows the degradation in time that occurs when an APOD with a working MOG of 3 is limited to 12-hour-per-day operations. Note that with a working MOG of 3, with a day or night limit on airfield operating time, a force would have to be one-fourth the size of an SBCT or even smaller to deploy in 96 hours. APOD Ground Times in Recent Operations To this point, our deployment time estimates and airlift requirements have been based upon the ground time planning factors— again, they do not account for the type of cargo, unit, urgency, or even degree of practice.

Current PAIs as of January 2003 are 85 C-17s and 104 C-5s. This information comes from an Air Mobility Command C-17 delivery and basing plan, 30 January 2002, and Air Mobility Command Studies and Analysis. 5 The active duty C-17 flight crew to aircraft ratio is 3 to 1, and it is 5 to 1 when including reserve flight crews. 6 The “synchronization” planning factor is 85 percent throughput efficiency. , no stops versus a more 12 Speed and Power: Toward an Expeditionary Army optimistic, we used this to balance the conservatism of the APOD ground time assumption.

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