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  • AMC announces senior leader retirements, assignments

    Air Mobility Command officials recently announced the following senior leader retirements and assignments: Senior leader retirements: Brig. Gen. Jarisse J. Sanborn, staff judge advocate, Headquarters AMC, Scott AFB, Ill., will retire effective in September. Col. Gregg A. Clark, chief, Manpower and

  • Desert duty: crew chiefs keep C-130s flying

    No one wishes for an aircraft to break, especially flying crew chiefs. But, that's when the mobile C-130 maintainers receive the most attention - when something is wrong with the plane, and they are far away from home. "Fortunately, C-130s are extremely reliable," said Senior Master Sgt. Edward

  • 18th AF welcomes new command chief master sergeant

    Not only did Chief Master Sgt. Brye McMillon celebrate his 25th year in the Air Force April 6, but he was also recently assigned as the 18th Air Force’s new command chief. Chief McMillon began his Air Force career in April 1981 after graduating from high school. “After I graduated high school, I

  • AMC welcomes new command chief master sergeant

    Opportunity, service, patriotism. Those are words Chief Master Sergeant Joseph Barron lives by, and they are themes he’ll share with Airmen as he travels base to base as the newest command chief master sergeant for the Air Mobility Command. Chief Barron reported for duty with AMC April 10 after a

  • Reserve crew flies C-130 humanitarian missions in Africa

    Horn of Africa - The 120 degree heat, dusty wind and 4,500-foot dirt runway seemed worlds away from snowy Pennsylvania, the home of Capt. Pat Stafy. The Air Force Reserve pilot, activated to fly with the 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in Southwest Asia, was flying his third mission to Bilate,

  • Airmen train for air evac

    Digging defensive fighting positions, driving with night-vision goggles and during chemical warfare training and hiking in to camp sound like Army training -- right? They are actually part of the annual training required for Pope’s 43rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron. “We are considered first

  • Phoenix Stripe brings together Total Force

    Forty-six junior noncommissioned officers and civilians from around the Air Force participated in Air Mobility Command's Phoenix Stripe program here April 4-7. Phoenix Stripe is a highly selective, professional development program geared toward providing the command and Air Force's up and coming

  • C-5 crash doesn’t diminish historian’s view of aircraft

    The C-5 Galaxy crash at Dover Air Force Base, Del., April 3 placed the aging aircraft in the spotlight once again. With no deaths reported, military officials are cleaning the crash site and are convening a board of officers to investigate the cause of the accident. But the crash does not tarnish

  • AMC announces senior leader retirements, assignments

    Air Mobility Command officials recently announced the following senior leader retirements and assignments: Senior leader retirements: Col. Allard R. Carney, director of staff, 60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis AFB, Calif., will retire, effective in August. Col. Darnell M. Waun, commander, 436th Medical

  • C-17 Globemaster surpasses millionth flying hour

    The C-17 Globemaster III recently surpassed its millionth hour of flight with a Total Force crew that evacuated injured U.S. troops March 20 from Iraq and transported them to Germany for medical treatment. A jolly band of Brits from the Royal Air Force also joined the blue-suit crew on the