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A team of multi-capable Airmen (MCA) from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, exercised skillsets outside their career fields to support airdrop operations during a training at Chièvres Air Base, Belgium, March 29, 2021.
The training was part of the 86th Airlift Wing’s new Cross-Functional Airlift Support Personnel (CASPER) program, created to enable Agile Combat Employment operations at Ramstein.
“CASPER, or any implementation of MCA, is critical in ensuring any wing mission set can forward deploy or mobilize, as required, with the minimum amount of personnel and resources, while still delivering desired effects to the respective combatant commander,” said Maj. Jon Cordell, 86th Operations Support Squadron assistant director of operations.