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Strategic Airlift: Further Air Base Reductions in Europe Could Jeopardize Capability

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 2, 1994
Report No. NSIAD-94-138
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Summary:

Over the past several years, U.S. airlift operations at several air bases in Europe have either been closed or curtailed. As of March 1994, operational capabilities at the six key air bases in Europe that would best support airlift aircraft headed for the Middle East are just enough to meet the mobility requirements spelled out in the Mobility Requirements Study. GAO concludes that ending airlift operations at any of the six European air bases would increase the risk that U.S. troops or cargo destined for a Middle East crisis would arrive too late; further, the Air Force would have to resort to riskier practices, such as aerial refueling and emergency base construction.

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