Joint Operational Support Airlift Center (JOSAC) is the airlift branch of United States Transportation Command

United States Transportation Command

The United States Transportation Command is one of nine unified commands of the United States Department of Defense. The mission of USTRANSCOM is to provide air, land and sea transportation for the Department of Defense, both in time of peace and time of war.USTRANSCOM, located at Scott Air Force...

 specializing in the airlift of senior defense officials within the continental United States

United States

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. Located at Scott Air Force Base

Scott Air Force Base

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 in Illinois

Illinois

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 about 20 miles from St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

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, JOSAC schedules aircraft from all four services (United States Army

United States Army

The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

, United States Air Force

United States Air Force

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, United States Marine Corps

United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...

, United States Navy

United States Navy

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) to meet airlift requests from DoD

United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...

 officials. Presently there are 80 units in the USA that provide aircraft to JOSAC to schedule. Effective October 2011, The US Navy C-12 units were disbanded and aircraft sent to Davis-Monthan AB AZ.

Aircraft utilized include the C-21A, C-12

C-12 Huron

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, C-26

C-26 Metroliner

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, UC-35

Cessna Citation

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, C-20

Gulfstream IV

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, C-40

C-40 Clipper

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 and C-9

McDonnell Douglas DC-9

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. Schedulers receive requests from travel validators via the JALIS database (Joint Air Logistics System) which is an Oracle

Oracle Database

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-based system developed by the US Navy. JOSAC's office is split into 2 major areas, The Floor (Day Schedulers) and Execution Cell (Same Day Flight Following). The Floor is divided into separate scheduling teams; Weekend Team (Saturday, Sunday, Monday); Tuesday/Wednesday Team, Thursday Team, Friday Team and Large Team. The Large Team schedules C-9, C-40 and C-20 aircraft while the remainder of the Floor schedules the smaller aircraft.

Requests to JOSAC are priortized by a PUJC Code, Pri 1, Pri 2, Pri 3. DoD Four-Star General

General

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s are mandatory users of the OSA fleet and will get first priority along with any Priority 2 request. The average Weekday has about 35 airlift requests but only 20 of the 130 aircraft assigned to the flying units are open for scheduling use. Several requests are put on the same aircraft for scheduling efficiency. Airlift requests for only one or two non-dv, non-Pri 2 are rarely scheduled.