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Fighting Pilot Fatigue on Military Charter Flights

DC-10 bounced off the runway, then slammed down again, damaging the jet beyond repair, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. One person was severely injured. Gatch told investigators he hadn’t slept well in four days while flying more than halfway around the world—fatigue that contributed to the accident, the safety board ruled.

Not enough military planes and pilots to transport U.S. troops means that 87 percent of personnel flown around the globe are carried by civilian charter airlines, a $4.5 billion-a-year business critical to the nation’s war efforts. The pilots who fly for World and other smaller military-charter companies work under U.S. rules that permit extended hours with less time between flights than commercial airlines or the military’s own guidelines allow. This puts the pilots and the troops at risk, says Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va. “Our soldiers may be expected to be heroes on the battlefield,” Voss says, “but we shouldn’t be relying on heroism flying them back home again.

Source: BusinessWeek

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Captain Molly: A Blog for and by Military Women « Off The Base

by Bobbie O'Brien

CaptainMolly.com , a website for all women warriors, is named after historical figure Margaret Corbin. She was nicknamed Captain Molly after she took over her dying husband’s cannon while defending Fort Washington in New York in 1776. Molly was wounded and became the first woman to receive a pension from the United States Government for her service in combat.

The website allows women to anonymously post their funniest or most outrageous experience while serving. The site has been online since mid September. In the inaugural post called Welcome Ladies! , Maggie Haynes writes:

There is a lot of unfunny when it comes to women in the service.  Rape, harassment, inequality; I’m not diminishing any of that, but on this blog I’m more prone to write about how my uniform pants make my rear end look as long and flat as a football field.