***UPDATE, Apr. 9, 2010: New video posted from the Pentagon Channel***
Air Force Gen. Duncan J. McNabb, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, has been a pretty popular guy in the past week or two. Between getting press in major newspapers and earning recognition from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, McNabb and his organization have been in a spotlight rarely shone on the logistical side of military operations.
“I think that our strategic ability to move and distribute around the world is one of the greatest asymmetric advantages our country has,” he said.
One of his biggest challenges is getting supplies to Afghanistan. Because it’s a landlocked country, surrounded by some of the highest mountains in the world and surrounded by “interesting” neighbors, as he put it, there’s no easy shipping route.
From the American Forces Press Service article on Defense.gov:
“I never want them to worry that we won’t get the stuff through,” said McNabb, referring to Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan and Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command. “My job is to come up with options that allow us to make sure that no matter what the situation, or no matter what happens … we have other options so they never have to worry. And they never do worry.”
Here’s a Pentagon Channel piece on TRANSCOM’s global mission from DoDvClips:
