Record cargo delivered to Afghanistan in 2011

February 6, 2012 by legitgov

Record cargo delivered to Afghanistan in 2011 05 Feb 2012 Mobility airmen dropped a record amount of cargo last year in Afghanistan, delivering about 80 million pounds of supplies across the west Asian country. The annual record marks an increase of about 33 percent over 2010, when mobility airmen dropped about 60 million pounds of cargo to Afghanistan. "To put that in some historical perspective, in the Korean War we only dropped a little over 30 million pounds total," said Maj. Tom Lankford, Air Mobility Command Combat Tactics Branch chief and director of operations. "We nearly doubled that in 2010, and [this year] we dropped nearly 80 million pounds."