And Turkey already provides essential logistics for humanitarian airlifts to Central Asia.
Biafra was inaccessible except by air, and by the fall of 1968 a humanitarian airlift had begun.
Since then, the model saw extensive use in major military and humanitarian airlifts of the Soviet Union.
It is the oldest ongoing Department of Defense mission which remains in full operation, and the longest running humanitarian airlift in the world.
The wing's first humanitarian airlift came in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo.
It has also participated in numerous joint airborne training exercises and humanitarian airlifts.
This act of compassion for the children of the blockaded city began the notion of humanitarian airlift.
It began performing worldwide humanitarian airlift and casualty evacuation from South Vietnam.
It the longest running humanitarian airlift in history.
It provided humanitarian airlift to Somalia from, 1992-1993.