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By August 7, 1991, more than 25,000 missions had moved more than 966,000 passengers and 774,000 tons of cargo to and from the Persian Gulf region. During Operation Desert Storm, the Military Airlift Command (MAC) averaged more than 100 such missions daily as it managed the largest airlift in history. A typical airlift mission carrying troops and cargo to the Persian Gulf required a three-day round-trip, visited seven or more different airfields, burned almost one million pounds of fuel, and cost $280,000.
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