AMC's Mission Index Flying initiative makes Air Force more efficient

A Global Positioning System device attached inside your car's front windshield calculates your shortest time, distance and fuel savings resulting in fewer trips to the gas station and less money withdrawn from your debit card. Just as a GPS device is able to save you money that could be spent on

AMC vice commander: Saving fuel secures the future -- one gallon at a time

Maintainers, aircrew members and aerial porters are changing the course of Air Mobility Command's future. AMC is the Defense Department's largest aviation fuel consumer. Avoiding fuel waste is one of our greatest opportunities to help DoD continue the mission within a constrained budget. If we don't

Critical care transport team continues to save lives

Since mid-January, the newly formed all-Air Force Critical Care Air Transport Team with the 651st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron or EAES at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan has been saving lives, whether they're U.S. troops, local nationals, or coalition partners."A life is a life," said

AMC logistics director, Joint Base MDL Airmen make mutual impression

The Director of Logistics, Brig. Gen. Lee Levy II, from Headquarters Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., visited the 305th Air Mobility Wing and the 87th Air Base Wing here Feb. 24 to get a closer look at some of the people and assets he's responsible for.Levy develops policy and

Photos: Fairchild weather ops

317th AG conducts first JPADS training

The 317th Airlift Group successfully completed their first continental U.S. Joint Precision Airdrop System, or JPADS, airdrops on routine training lines Feb. 22, 2012 by dropping two bundles equaling 2,400 pounds at Fort Hood, Texas. JPADS is an airdrop system that uses Global Positioning Satellite,

Family, friends welcome 7th AS home

More than 120 Airmen from McChord Field's 7th Airlift Squadron were greeted by family and friends Feb. 29 after a 60-day deployment in support of operations Enduring Freedom, New Dawn, Odyssey Dawn and Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa.The Airmen were deployed as the 817th Expeditionary

U.S., Honduran Air Forces end BPC mission with closing ceremony

From the installation of the first radar altimeter in a Honduran air force helicopter, to establishing the first air traffic control curriculum and laying ground work for a new survival course for the Honduran air force aircrews, the initial building partner capacity mission in Honduras concluded at

Photos: 628th MDG tests readiness

Grand Forks Airman featured in Portraits of Courage

Tech. Sgt. Clifford Monroe displays a certain quiet -- a distinct air of humility. He is quick to listen, slow to speak.To those who don't know him, it might appear as a sort of melancholy. But it was his combat experience in Afghanistan that helped mold who he is today and how he approaches