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Air Force

Schwartz: Expanded Global Infrastructure Needed For North-To-South Transport

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Thursday, December 20th, 2007

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The U.S. military's global transport network needs to grow from it's current east-west orientation to a more robust en-route infrastructure that can move personnel and material more readily north to south as well, including into regions of growing interest such as Africa, the general overseeing this network said recently. "The truth is that our network is pretty robust east to west through the developed countries," Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz, commander of U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM), said Dec. 6 on…

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