Airforce1's support buddy - C17

[Ilya]

@HudsonFalcon

The securemotorcade vehicles are brought in advance by a C-5 Galaxy or a couple of C-17 Globemasters. More if they bring helicopters, not to mention if they’re making more than one stop on the same trip (as they were with Ireland and Dublin). The spare VC-25 (AF1) is usually stationed somewhere close by in case the one in use suffers a fault. On some foreign trips there will also be a USN carrier battle group exercising off the coast, which is not entirely coincidental.

Generally they only bring in about 10 or so cars specially - the rest will be local police/ambulance/embassy, hired minibuses for journalists and staff, etc.

Not sure if the people here would be interested, but here is some interesting clips on AF1 and Marine1.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9znxxBTW1bM[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI0yi8TamK0[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hMM6fWJvto[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orOgtankPLM[/ame]

[HudsonFalcon]

^Yeah NatGeo does some really interesting shows on the technology used to protect the President and the chimp we have in charge now.

[Ilya]

:lol