Nursing can be a physically taxing job – particularly when it comes to patient transfers – and it's over-represented in workplace injury statistics. With the nursing workforce getting older, and more ...
Discover how the C-17 Globemaster’s unique cabin design enables tanks, flying hospitals, polar missions, missile tests, and ...
At the beginning of the airlift, the conventional wisdom on both the Allied and Soviet sides was that Berlin could not be supplied indefinitely by air, that it would only be a matter of time before ...
Berlin Airlift: Remembering those who fell to feed a hungry city during massive humanitarian mission
WIESBADEN, Germany -- For those who lived through the massive humanitarian effort to deliver life-saving supplies to the citizens of Berlin in 1948 and 1949, remembering is the easy part. But ensuring ...
February 4-11: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchilll, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta and confirm a plan to divide both Germany and the city of Berlin ...
Humanitarian assistance has become a political football. It took months of bitter debate before Congress passed a critical $95 billion package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan in late April, providing ...
The C-17 Globemaster III is expected to serve in the US Air Force inventory until 2075—suggesting that the NGAL will not be ready for war for decades. The US military is an expeditionary army that ...
Back in 1908, Thomas Edison was asked for his opinion on the Wright brothers’ aeroplane. The electrical wizard pooh-poohed the Wrights’ achievement. “No aeroplane would be good”, he said, “until it ...
Airlift to America, by Tom Shachtman, is published by St. Martin's. Of all the African leaders of the 1960s independence era, none was more appealing than Tom Mboya. When he visited American colleges, ...
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