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'Port Dawg' Challenge underway at Dobbins

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  • By Master Sgt. Chris Durney
  • Port Dawg Challenge Public Affairs
DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Ga. --  The Air Force Reserve's biannual air mobility logistics competition kicked off this week at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., pitting 19 Aerial Port Squadrons from 17 states in a battle to determine who's the best "Port Dawg."

Six-person teams from installations across the nation - including Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii - are putting their air mobility skills to the test in a series of events that include driving and loading prowess, administrative and processing skills, pallet build-up skills, forklift handling, load planning, fitness and professional knowledge.

Aerial Port units perform military logistics functions that include passenger and cargo processing, equipment loading, air cargo preparation and load plans, and supervising units engaged in aircraft loading and unloading operations.

The biannual event was created to generate esprit de corps within the Air Force Reserve Aerial Port community, as well as promote professionalism, demonstrate air and space expeditionary forces mission capabilities, and promote an exchange of information among participants to identify best practices and improve wartime mission results.

Teams competing include:


38th and 81st APS, JB Charleston, S.C.
27th APS, Minneapolis-Saint Paul Joint Air Reserve Station, Minn.
32nd APS, Pittsburgh ARS, Pa.
35th and 88th APS, Jont Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.
41st APS, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi
42nd APS, Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass.
45th APS, Travis AFB, Calif.
46th APS, Dover AFB, Del.
48th APS, Hickam AFB, Hawaii
67th APS, Hill AFB, Utah
70th APS, Homestead ARB, Fla.
71st APS, JB Langley-Eustis, Va.
74th APS, JB San Antonio-Lackland, Texas
76th APS, Youngstown ARS, Ohio
80th APS, Dobbins ARB, Ga.
94th APS, Robins AFB, Ga.
96th APS, Little Rock AFB, Ark

Day Two

The bi-annual air mobility competition took a decidedly more physical turn on the second day of the three-day contest.

Competitors in this year's Port Dawg Challenge are locked in a battle to determine the best aerial port team in the Air Force Reserve. In addition to having their professional skills put to the test, they underwent a tough physical fitness challenge for day two--June 21.

Out on a portion of the flight line here, three members of each team had to run five 300-meter laps and perform a tough callisthenic known as a 'burpee' within two minutes per lap.

Despite the Georgia heat, the strength of the Air Force Reserve's aerial port community shown through the sweat and pain as a blistering pace was set. A burpee is a fluid combination of a push-up, squat thrust and jumping jack.

Events for this year's competition test driving and loading prowess, administrative and processing skills, pallet build-up skills, forklift handling, load planning, and physical fitness.

Read more: http://www.dvidshub.net/news/90340/second-day-port-dawg-challenge-gets-physical#ixzz1yQuM7Uyq