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Dover Air Force Base, Delaware - 29 April 2022
1. Wide, C-17 ready for loading
2. Close-up explosives sign on bed of transport vehicle as howitzer missiles are loaded
3. Various, air force personnel loading pallets into C-17
4. Various, pallets of howitzers being pushed into place for shipment
ANNOTATION: "This C-17 is being loaded with a combined shipment of howitzer missiles and personal protective gear destined for Poland, en route to Ukraine."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Matt Husemann, U.S. Air Force, Commander of the 436th Airlift Wing:
"We deliver the right thing to the right place at the right time. It's awe inspiring to be an airman that's able to do that. Whether that's delivering bullets or it's delivering bags of food or delivering vehicles, whatever that is it comes in the form of hope for someone. So to be a part of a whole government approach that's delivering hope across the globe to be able to work with NATO, our partners all across Europe. It's it is awesome."
6. Mid, pallet of howitzers being pushed into place
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Bary Flack, U.S. Air Force, Commander of 436th Maintenance Group:
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"The president is has obviously made this a priority to support Eastern Europe, specifically Ukraine. Multiple presidential directives have come out with certain material that needs to be moved to to Ukraine.Dover has been a central point in a lot of the movement of material. And what we've had is is a lot of different types of items. When you look at lethal material and lethal aid, we've had things such as javelins and stingers, low yield explosives, those kinds of things, but also things for survivability for, for the personnel in Ukraine, which is general cargo. Things like individual body armor, helmets, sleeping bags, those kinds of things to ensure that those folks over there have a have have hope. Our goals are to be agile. Our goals are to be persistent in how we move the material because we obviously know there's folks on the other end that need it. So, it's a very choreographed and very synchronized way of doing business among multiple agencies."
8. Mid, pallets full of howitzers
9. Wide, warehouse
10. Traveling shot, goods packed in front of U.S. flag
11. Interior shots of C-17 with cargo being loaded
ANNOTATION: "Nearly 70 airlift missions from Dover AFB have moved over seven million pounds of equipment and armaments to Europe since February."
12. Wide, explosive sign in front of C-17
13. Various, goods being loaded
ANNOTATION: "The U.S. and others have pledged to step up deliveries of artillery, armored vehicles and anti-air and anti-tank weapons and munitions to Ukraine."
14. Wide, C-17 being loaded
As President Joe Biden pushes Congress for another $33 billion to bolster Ukraine's fight against Russia, the rapid pace of shipments out of Delaware's Dover Air Force base continues.
On Friday, a C-17 from MaGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey was being loaded with a combined shipment of howitzer missiles and personal protective gear destined for Poland, en route to Ukraine.
Commander of the 436th Airlift Wing at Dover, Colonel Matt Husemann, said his group delivers "the right thing to the right place at the right time."
"Whether that's delivering bullets or it's delivering bags of food or delivering vehicles, whatever that is it comes in the form of hope for someone," he said.
Colonel Bary Flack, the Air Force's 436th Maintenance Group commander, said Dover is responding to the president's priority to support Eastern Europe and Ukraine.
"Our goals are to be agile," Flack said. "Our goals are to be persistent in how we move the material because we obviously know there's folks on the other end that need it."
Flack said nearly 70 airlift missions from Dover had moved over seven million pounds of equipment and armaments to Europe since February.
Biden's newest package has about $20 billion in defense spending for Ukraine and U.S. allies in the region and $8.5 billion to keep Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government providing services and paying salaries. There's $3 billion in global food and humanitarian programs, including money to help Ukrainian refugees who've fled to the U.S. and to prod American farmers to grow wheat and other crops to replace the vast amounts of food Ukraine normally produces.
The package, which administration officials estimated would last five months, is more than twice the size of the initial $13.6 billion aid measure that Congress enacted early last month and now is almost drained. With the bloody war dragging into its third month, the measure was designed to signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin that U.S. weaponry and other streams of assistance are not going away.
Biden's request to Congress comes with powerful Russian offensives underway in eastern and southern Ukraine, and pleas from Zelenskyy for long-range and offensive weapons.
The U.S. and others have pledged to step up deliveries of such equipment, and summaries of Biden's plan mention artillery, armored vehicles and anti-air and anti-tank weapons and munitions.
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