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Operational Support Airlift: Analysis of Joint Staff Estimate of Military Wartime Requirements

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 21, 1996
Report No. NSIAD-96-157
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Summary:

Operational support aircraft are used to meet short notice, generally smaller cargo and passenger requirements that cannot be met by regularly scheduled tactical resupply aircraft. A study by the Joint Chiefs of Staff found that the joint wartime requirement for operational support aircraft is 391 planes, or about 100 less than the fleet in existence at the time of the study. In response to a congressional request that GAO determine if the requirement for 391 aircraft was excessive, this report (1) recalculates the Joint Staff's estimate using the same computerized model and (2) determines how changes in the flight frequency assumptions affected the calculation of aircraft requirements.

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