Military airlift

(b) Military airlift

(b) Military airlift .

The Sarajevo airlift has now gone on longer than the Berlin airlift 45 years ago.

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Air force, strategic airlift goes both ways.

Nevertheless, the airlift continued for several months after that.

Provision is made to airlift certain vital equipment to contingents.

The airlift worked ground access was again granted on May 11, 1949.

The humanitarian airlift to Sarajevo, the largest since the Berlin airlift, started its operation on 3 July 1992, bringing a daily average of 200 metric tons of food and medical supplies.

Sit home with a loaded gun? Have the groceries dropped in by airlift?

He oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and the creation of NATO in 1949.

A professionally constructed solution pump airlift operation that incorporates a lengthy pontoon raft and divers

Too much has changed since the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Emergency airlift operations could be extended to many places where it is now unsafe or impossible to fly.

6. UNHCR and the countries contributing to the air drop and to airlift operations are requested to start, without any delay, humanitarian aid delivery to Bihać, Srebrenica and Žepa by air drops, as well as to restore the airlift to Sarajevo immediately.

Furthermore, it would not be cost effective to airlift items from remote areas of the country to Phnom Penh.

The war culminated in an international airlift agreed to by Senegal and Mauritania under international pressure to prevent further violence.

Additional provision is made for a special airlift of 2,746 troops, including some equipment, as detailed in annex IV ( 8,346,700).

UNHCR had deployed large numbers of staff and mounted a massive airlift to transport vast quantities of relief items to Pakistan.

4. Start of air drop operations for Bihać, Srebrenica and Žepa, and the airlift operation for Sarajevo as soon as possible.

In Angola, for example, repeated attacks on WFP cargo aircraft have periodically shut down the airlift critical to reach the besieged populations.

At mid year, arrangements were being made to register and airlift approximately 800 refugees from Suki and Damazine to Gambella and other destinations in Ethiopia.

The United States, Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and several other countries began the massive Berlin airlift , supplying West Berlin with food and other provisions.

There are enough UNAVEM II and WFP aircraft in the country to airlift United Nations personnel in Angola to a safe haven, should that become necessary.

23. Provision is made for the emplacement of contingent personnel by means of a special military airlift, as detailed in column 2 of annex XI ( 9,871,700).

The provision of specialized enabling resources to UNSAS also remains problematic, particularly strategic airlift capacities to move troops and contingent owned equipment to and from mission areas.

US support in Africa likely would take the form of airlift, logistics, in air refueling, intelligence, command and control communications, and surveillance (including use of satellites and drones).

Although the evacuation operation did not actually take place, the local provincial reconstruction team was preparing to airlift 25 non governmental organizations personnel to safety using German helicopters.

The UNAVEM II and WFP aircraft currently in the country have sufficient capacity to airlift all United Nations personnel to a safe haven, if the situation so dictates.

Careful consideration must be given to the options set forth therein, including the establishment of a revolving fund to enable African States to obtain strategic sea and airlift capabilities.

Land mines, destroyed bridges and military activity have limited road transportation, and airlift operations have had to be reduced because of the fighting and the threat of missile attacks.

Each of these aircraft will be able to provide an airlift capability of up to 40 tons for movement of bulk cargo that cannot fit inside the current cargo aircraft.

Too much has changed since the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. But I do not believe that the American dream has died in Europe quite yet.

62. UNAMIR will require airlift capability for a quick reaction force strength of approximately 100 personnel and for the transport of personnel and limited amounts of essential cargo to inaccessible locations.

The amount is calculated based on the DSA rate outside Cambodia and an amount of 30 per day in Cambodia for approximately 119 persons, decreasing as the airlift fleet is phased out.

Light and medium helicopters carry out emergency casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) of critically wounded or injured United Nations personnel and emergency medical evacuation of United Nations personnel requiring airlift to better medical facilities.

On March 25, 2008, it was decided that Finland would join NATO Strategic Airlift Capability programme, which comprises a joint purchase of three C 17s by the new NATO countries and Sweden and Finland.

In military terms, European countries need to spend more on secure communications, airlift capabilities, special operations, and dealing with chemical and biological battlefields in order to be able to fight the war on terrorism effectively.

Since then, the status of resources has improved, with over 30 million in cash donations and 29,000 metric tons of mixed commodities now announced as confirmed pledges, allowing the airlift, barge and road operations to continue.

In the month of November, the humanitarian situation in Sarajevo drastically deteriorated as a result of the suspension of the airlift on 23 November 1994 and the non use of land corridors for humanitarian convoying to Sarajevo.

Meanwhile, the repatriation of Ethiopian refugees from the Sudan to Tigray and neighbouring provinces, which started late in 1993, continued at varying rates of return, both by road and airlift, into 1994, with 25,000 refugees having returned to date.

With respect to the airlift by the Russian Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Natural Disasters of humanitarian assistance, medical supplies and food, the Russian contribution to alleviating the consequences of the disaster has amounted to date to over 33 million.

It was estimated that three mechanized infantry battalions would be required to perform the above functions. In addition, UNIKOM apos s airlift capability would need to be augmented so that it could lift one company in one wave for rapid reaction.