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November 2002 issue - Vol.3, No.2, 24 pages

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Joint command tracks supply shipments using technology

  SCOTT AFB -- If you're a frontline warfighter or a team waiting for humanitarian relief, the necessity of knowing which supplies are coming - and when - is vital.
  In Afghanistan and other combat territories, the military is embracing technology to improve in-transit visibility; that technology is in the form of the U.S. Transportation Command's Global Transportation Network.
  In practical terms, with the click of a computer mouse, a supply sergeant can assure his commander that a much-needed shipment of parts from the U.S. is landing on an airstrip in Kabul and will arrive at the base the following day.
  "Our focus is the warfighter, or [continue]

A C-5 Galaxy cargo aircraft joins up with a KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft during aerial refueling over the Pacific Ocean. Mid-air refueling brings far-flung bombing targets within reach.

Armed forces partner with transportation industry to keep costs down, efficiencies up
By KERRY L. SMITH

   When it's time to mobilize troops and equip them at posts throughout the world, two unique partnerships between the military and commercial air and sea carriers come into play.
  Since it was created by executive order in 1951 under the Department of Defense, The Civil Reserve Air Fleet or CRAF has had as its purpose to contract with businesses to fly military personnel and supplies to wherever they're needed - often within a 24- or 48-hour turnaround [continue]

High-speed rail planners in Illinois are looking to Canada as a model of how a successful, high-speed passenger rail can work.

Missouri companies team to launch $54 million Illinois development
By VICKI BENNINGTON

   O'FALLON -- Balke Brown Associates and Taylor-Morley Homes have partnered for the first time to bring a brand-new, $54 million, multi-family development to O'Fallon known as Green Mount Lakes.
  Green Mount Lakes will be a mixed-use community, incorporating more than 200 garden apartments with upscale town homes, mansion houses and villa housing. The development is located on Frank Scott Parkway near the Green Mount Road intersection. Suzanne Butler, senior vice president of development-Illinois at Balke Brown Associates, said this site was chosen for three primary reasons.
  "We wanted zoning with high-density per acre," Butler said. "Also, the whole corner is coming along with shopping, restaurants [continue]

 
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