Mission
The 463d is a direct reporting unit of over 1,200 Airmen. The unit employs 30 C-130 aircraft that perform airlift missions worldwide. It provides direct support to warfighting combatant commanders with theater combat aerial delivery of personnel and their resupply worldwide.
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Famous quotes containing the word mission:
“The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The mission is too important to allow you to jeopardize it.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
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—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)