loadmaster
Sign in to savethumb|300px|A Royal Australian Air Force loadmaster directing a vehicle onto a [[C-130J Hercules in 2016]] A loadmaster is an aircrew member on military transport aircraft or civilian aircraft (with cargo ramp) tasked with the safe loading, transport and unloading of aerial cargoes. Loadmasters serve in the militaries and civilian airlines of many nations.
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10 sectionsContents
- Duties
- History
- Development, early 1940s, and WWII
- Late 1940s, Korean War, and the 1950s
- 1960s, the Vietnam War, and 1970s
- 1980s and after
- Loadmasters decorated for valor
- See also
- Notes
- References
thumb|300px|A Royal Australian Air Force loadmaster directing a vehicle onto a [[C-130J Hercules in 2016]] A loadmaster is an aircrew member on military transport aircraft or civilian aircraft (with cargo ramp) tasked with the safe loading, transport and unloading of aerial cargoes. Loadmasters serve in the militaries and civilian airlines of many nations.
==Duties== thumb|Royal Australian Air Force Brevet thumb|right|Australian Army Loadmaster Brevet thumb|USAF Enlisted Aircrew Badge