ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The United States Air Force hosted its Cargo University, an accelerated three-day course on cargo deployment readiness training, on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) in April. The course focuses on teaching service members how to safely and effectively load cargo.
“One mistake can lead to fatal consequences,” said Tech. Sgt. David Fitzgerald, U.S. Air Force.
Fitzgerald compares loading cargo to a game of Tetris. Service members need to consider the weight, measurements and center of balance when building and securing each load…