Josac

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JOSAC is the airlift branch of US Transportation Command specializing in the airlift of senior defense officials within the Continental United States. Located at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois about 20 miles from St.Louis, Missouri. JOSAC ( Joint Operational Support Airlift Center) schedules aircraft from all four services (USA,USAF,USMC,USN)to meet airlift requests from DoD officials. Presently there are 80 units in the USA that provide aircraft to JOSAC to schedule.

Aircraft utilized include the C-21A, C-12, C-26, UC-35, C-20, C-40 and C-9. Schedulers receive requests from travel validators via the JALIS database (Joint Air Logistics System) which is a oracle 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(SAT,SUN,MON); Tuesday/Wednesday Team, Thursday Team, Friday Team and Large Team. Large Team schedules C-9, C-40 and C-20 aircraft while the remainder of the Floor schedule to smaller aircarft.

Request to JOSAC are priortized by a PUJC Code, Pri 1, Pri 2, Pri 3. DoD Four Star Generals 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 request but only 20 of the 130 aircraft assinged to the flying units are open for scheduling use. Several requests are put on the same aircraft for scheduling efficiency. Airlift request for only 1 or 2 non-dv,non Pri 2 are rarely scheduled.

JOSAC is assigned to the J-3 Directorate under the United States Transportation Command and is currently commanded by Captain Pete Davenport, USN. The workforce of JOSAC consists of members of all four services in the rank of E-5 to E-8, Civilians in the grade of GS-9 to GS-12.