OUR HISTORY

Crews check over -0172 after a Southwest Asia mission during Operation Enduring Freedom. Beginning in January 2003, most of the C-17’s assigned to the 62nd Airlift Wing from McChord were deployed  to Charleston AFB to support Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. 

Ground crews at a forward-deployed location load  C-17 Globemaster III 00-0172 with Meals Ready to Eat for troops deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom on Feb. 27

C-17 -0172 and other Globemaster IIIs from the 62nd & 437th AW's await orders to load and launch on March 26, 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom at an undisclosed location. 

Tech. Sgt. John Zistl gives a thumbs up after marshaling a C-17A -0172 to its parking spot at an operating location in support of Operation Enduring Freedom on Nov. 28. Two 62nd aw C-17s delivered 34,000 humanitarian daily rations (HDR) Dec. 2, which brought the total number of HDRs delivered to 2.1 million. 

Aerial port airmen load C-130 Hercules propellers onto a 60-k loader at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The airmen uploaded the props onto C-17A -0172, which then airlifted the cargo to a base in the Middle East. The base's loading ramp, the domain of the 723rd Air Mobility Squadron, has seen a 60-percent increase in aircraft during the past year.