On August 4, 2026, Charleston Air Force Base-International Airport (CHS) put a handful of Boeing C-17 Globemaster III into the air in a mass generation exercise that looked like a routine display of readiness. But the significance was not just how many aircraft appeared on the runway. Seven months earlier, eight Charleston C-17s had flown 9,000 miles (14,484 kilometers) nonstop into the Indo-Pacific, and keeping that kind of airlift available required solving a much less visible problem on the ground.
Inside The 9,000-Mile Nonstop Mission That Rewrote How Charleston Generates C-17 Airlift
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Rozita Brandson
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