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  • Sibling tanker pilots connect 7,700 miles from home

    Being in different services, they never thought their military paths would cross, but two Kaysville, Utah, brothers are sharing a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Torbensen family learned Marine Corps Capt. Jason Torbensen and Air Force 1st Lt. Dustin Torbensen would serve together at a

  • AMC mission support commanders visit base

    Nine Air Mobility Command Mission Support Group commanders toured Fairchild Nov. 16 in hopes of finding something they can incorporate into their groups at their home bases. The program, called the Excellent Installation Orientation program, gives other AMC mission support group commanders a chance

  • AMC/CC: Yokota, 730AMS essential to Global Reach

    The commander of Air Mobility Command met with the men and women of the 730th Air Mobility Squadron and other senior officials here last week. As part of a 9-day tour of air mobility operations across the Pacific region, Gen. Duncan J. McNabb hosted a commander's call, toured the AMC passenger

  • Second C-5M Super Galaxy takes flight

    The second fully modernized Lockheed Martin C-5M Super Galaxy test aircraft made its first flight Nov. 17 from Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. This is the second of three aircraft that will comprise the new C-5M test fleet. "The C-5M represents a true recapitalization program for a critical

  • Dover Airmen restore past, raise the future at local veteran's shelter

    A lone house sits between farm fields down a quiet, country road. Inside the house live 15 veterans and outside stand three flag poles. One pole carries the American Flag flying proudly 40 feet above the ground. On the others, the Delaware State and Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action flags ride an

  • AFSO21 driven by Airmen ingenuity

    AFSO 21 took another step forward at Headquarters, Air Mobility Command in late October when a Mobility Air Forces Strategy Team of nearly two dozen military and civilian subject matter experts identified a number of overarching Deployment and Distribution Chain processes which can be streamlined.

  • Dover crew flies C-17 training mission

    This weekend marked another milestone for the base's transition to a new mission as the first all-Dover aircrew, active and Reserve, flew a C-17 Globemaster III training mission Nov. 4. The flight was part of an interfly agreement Nov. 1 - 5 with the 305th Air Mobility Wing, McGuire Air Force Base,

  • Humble chief gains national attention

    All of the attention embarrasses him, but as this chief master sergeant learned recently, a lifetime of caring and good deeds is bound to catch up with you eventually. Chief Master Sgt. John Gebhardt, superintendent of the 22nd Wing Medical Group here, recently gained worldwide attention for a photo

  • AMC reduces costs through fuel efficiency

    Energy costs are a significant part of the DoD operating budget, and Air Mobility Command uses 54 percent of the U.S. military's consumption of aviation fuel. Not surprisingly, efficient use of this resource has always been an AMC goal. As fuel costs remain high, AMC is exploring new ways of