Tactical Airlift in US Military?

Question

It sounds exciting but I need more info on it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well they guys and girls I know in it think it is boring but to each his own. They do say it is a comfort when the load is a bunch of paratroopers though. They don't have to do all the loading and all they have to do is help pull the pack trays and static lines in and fold the seats up and the day is done.  

Answer 2

Air freight ... military style. Imagine C-130's hauling pallets of boxes of whatever or troops from one place to another. Bout it.

Answer 3

Tactical  Airlift is nothing more than intratheater airlift. You will be moving stuff around within an area of responsibility (AOR) often referred to as a theater. this mission is typically done by C-130s and can be done by C-17s. These operations also include airdrop of troop, equipment, and supplies. It really can be exciting.  

Answer 4

Tactical airlift can be either fixed wing like C-130 and C-17 aircraft or rotor type aircraft like an EH1 or UH1.  A lot depends on the service as the Army and Marine Corps actually are the ones that have the rotor type tactical airlift program and the Air Force has the tactical fixed wing program and both inter-phase with one another at places like Kirkuk, Baghdad, Islamabad and other places where the US military operates in and out of.   Besides that you also have what they call Strat airlift which is wide-body, thin skinned jets like the C-5 and KC10 that require hardened runways to land and take-off from while the C-130 and C-17 can land on the grass and are much more armored and have much more in the way of tactical defensive weapons capabilities.