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By KERRY L. SMITH
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.
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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
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