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An ATA Airlines L-1011 touched down at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on 12 June to bring home the 500,000th passenger since US Central Command's Rest and Recuperation Leave Program and Air Mobility Command's R and R flight operations began in 2003. Maj. Gen. Frederick Roggero, director of Air, Space, and Information Operations for Headquarters Air Mobility Command, greeted the 151 US service members and Department of Defense civilians coming home from Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. AMC is responsible for contracting all commercial aircraft for worldwide DoD passenger and cargo charter airlift, including the R and R flight missions. Approximately 420 passengers fly home from the war zone on two daily charter flights.
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