62nd AW conducts first C-17 JPADS training

Capts. Thomas Kubler, left, 8th Airlift Squadron, and Josh Long, 62nd Operations Support Squadron, discuss the Joint Precision Airdrop System, or JPADS, before the first continental C-17 Globemaster III JPADS airdrop March 8, 2012, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. JPADS is an airdrop system that uses Global Positioning Satellite, steerable parachutes and an onboard computer to steer loads to a designated point of impact on a drop zone. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Leah Young)

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