Nicholas PriestĪfter the Charleston flyover, the C-17s split into four groups to focus on different mission sets under the umbrella of Agile Combat Employment: command-and-control, navigation, tempo, and logistics under fire. Specifically, the four groups dispersed to Pope Army Airfield, N.C. during Mission Generation Exercise 23, January 5, 2023. Air Force’s 437th and Air Force Reserve’s 315th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. Twenty-four C-17 Globemaster III aircraft assigned to the U.S. Also involved in the exercise were F-16 fighters, KC-135 tankers, and an E-3 AWACS aircraft, for a total of nearly 60 aircraft in the operation, according to a release.
The 24 Globemaster IIIs included more than half the 437th Airlift Wing’s inventory and one in 10 of all the C-17s in the entire U.S. The maneuvers were part of a broad-ranging force generation exercise that included Air Force, Army, and Marine Corps units all across the Southeast. The display of airpower opened with an elephant walk of Globemaster IIIs and included a flyover above the city of Charleston.
5, the most C-17s to ever launch together from a single base. Two dozen C-17s took off from Joint Base Charleston, S.C., on Jan.
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