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  • AMC captures four Air Force design awards

    Four Air Mobility Command design projects captured top honors as best in the Air Force during the 2004 U.S. Air Force Design and Construction Awards.In the Planning Studies and Design Guides category, the command earned a Citation Award for the Fairchild AFB, Wash., Survival School 10-Year Master

  • Spangdahlem reaches final phase of Rhein-Main transition

    - Lt. Gen. William Welser III, 18th Air Force commander, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., and a team of mobility leaders visited here Saturday to gain a first-hand look at the base's progress in the Rhein-Main transition. The team's visit followed a trip to Ramstein AB and provided 52nd Fighter Wing

  • AMC announces senior officer, senior leader assignments

    Air Mobility Command officials have announced the following senior officer and senior leader assignments:Col. Michael J. Basla, director of communications, information and chief information officer, Headquarters AMC, will become deputy director, Operations Support Modernization, Deputy Chief of

  • AMC announces O'Malley Award nominee

    Gen. John W. Handy, Air Mobility Command and U.S. Transportation Command commander, has announced AMC's nominee for the 2003 General and Mrs. Jerome F. O'Malley Award.Colonel and Mrs. Brooks Bash, 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB, S.C., were chosen to represent AMC at the upcoming Air Force-level

  • Air Force-wide housing study calls for fewer on-base homes

    According to Air Mobility Command officials, in the future, the Air Force will rely more on the local communities around its bases to adequately house military families.A service-wide Housing Requirements and Market Analysis study confirmed the Air Force could reduce the number of military family

  • C-17 crew wins Mackay Trophy

    One year after they led the biggest combat airdrop since Operation Just Cause in Panama in December 1989, five Airmen from McChord Air Force Base, Wash., are the winners of the National Aeronautic Association's Clarence Mackay Trophy for 2003.Lt. Col. Shane Hershman, 7th Airlift Squadron; Maj. Bob

  • Preliminary court proceedings slated for Travis airman

    The military judge appointed to preside over the court martial case involving Senior Airman Ahmad I. Al Halabi, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., has scheduled the next court martial session for March 24 at Travis. At this session, the military judge, Col. Barbara G. Brand of the Central Circuit

  • AMC team vital to getting BIAP hub restarted

    Tech. Sgt. Doug Starkweather wasn't sure what he was in for when he left here in April for his deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. But he knew it was about freedom."The war, and the continued efforts in Iraq, are all about freedom," Sergeant Starkweather said. "We enjoy so much

  • AMC Services initiative supporting children of deployed personnel

    When funding was provided to Air Mobility Command Services to help children of deployed servicemembers, it didn't take them long to determine how to get the best bang for their buck.Using ideas solicited from other Services organizations throughout the command, AMC Services started the "Keeping in

  • Stateside 'Space-A' travel test extended

    The one-year test to expand space-available travel privileges to family members of active-duty and retired personnel traveling within the Continental United States was extended, according to a Feb. 24 message released by Air Mobility Command's Air Transportation Division.In the message, Lt. Col.