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NEWS

  • Transition to AMC SharePoint site set for April 3

    Air Mobility Command officials moved one step closer to making it easier to share information within squadrons, wings and across all of AMC on March 20, wrapping up a 14-month Enterprise Information Management deployment tour across the command.The seven-person EIM team spent three weeks at McChord,

  • AMC maintainers compete in civilian aircraft maintenance competition

    Three Air Mobility Command maintenance teams gathered in Las Vegas, Nev., March 9-12 to compete in the Aviation Maintenance Technology Society's second annual Maintenance Skills Competition.AMC teams were from Dyess AFB, Texas; McChord AFB, Wash.; and McGuire AFB, N.J.The competition consisted of 12

  • Course trains Air Force intelligence analysts in ground combat operations

    Air Force intelligence analysts have been trained to focus on air threats since they first entered the service. There's now a need for them to be trained to provide support for world-wide ground combat and force protection operations. The Air Force Force Protection Intelligence Formal Training Unit

  • Enviromental, Safety and Operational Health Symposium held in St. Louis

    More than 1,000 Airmen, Air Force civilians and personnel from other government agencies from all over the world convened in St. Louis for the annual Environmental, Safety and Operational Health Symposium March 9-13.Started in 1993, the symposium features more than 500 classes tailored to the needs

  • AMC operations hub passes Mission Capability Inspection

    The 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center, Air Mobility Command's hub for global airlift, air refueling and aeromedical evacuation operations, completed a Mission Capability Inspection this week earning an overall rating of "excellent," according to the AMC Inspector General's office.The 618th TACC,

  • Raven training combatives: 'It's chess, not checkers'

    "Space is opportunity. It's chess, not checkers," said Tech. Sgt. Rudolph Stuart while instructing students in ground-fighting skills, or combatives. Sergeant Stuart, combatives instructor with the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's 421st Combat Training Squadron here, uses those words to tell

  • AMC aeromedical evac missions bring Total Force partners together

    In the Air Force today, the phrase "Total Force," the multi-component of active-duty, Reserves, and Guard forces in the military, is a way of life for many Airmen. In the Air Mobility Command aeromedical evacuation community, every day entails a combination of Total Force AMC assets and

  • The 1930s: A lag, but not the end of aerial refueling

    Editor's note: This is the third article in a series of articles highlighting the history of aerial refueling and the important role aerial refueling has played in American military history.After the success of the Question Mark's Jan. 1929 aerial refueling flight, and the operational shortcomings

  • Scott medical personnel receive Air Force awards

    Four members from the 375th Operations and Medical Groups recently received a 2008 Air Force Medical Service Award. The AFMSA is presented by the Air Force Surgeon General's Medical Force Development directorate to 150 medical personnel who exemplify superior job performance, innovative operations

  • Air refueling development lags

    Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles highlighting the history of aerial refueling and the important role aerial refueling has played in American military history. After the success of the Question Mark's Jan. 1929 aerial refueling flight, and the operational shortcomings of the