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  • Rupps nominated for O'Malley Award

    Col. Ricky Rupp and his spouse, Charlotte, received the 2013 General Jerome F. O'Malley and Diane O'Malley Air Mobility Command nomination Jan. 3, 2013. Rupp has led the 22nd Air Refueling Wing since June 2011 commanding more than 2,800 active duty Airmen in one of three core tanker wings. Named in

  • Mobility Support Advisory squadrons reach full operational capability

    One year after achieving initial operational capability, the Air Force's only two Mobility Support Advisory Squadrons reached full operational capability Dec. 1."Achieving full operational capability tells Air Force leaders we are ready to perform our mission in support of national security

  • Dover Airmen learn life-coping skills

    Fifty airmen at Dover Air Force Base, Del., attended resilience training on Dec. 14. This training was one of 29 training sessions conducted by seven Master Resilience Trainers and six Resilience Training Assistants in 2012, 33 of which have been conducted since Air Mobility Command's big push in

  • Answering the call, McConnell attends A/TA

    Active duty, Guard and Reserve Airmen gathered with Department of Defense civilians, industry partners and military families from across Air Mobility Command at the 44th Annual Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium Nov. 1 to 4 in Anaheim, Calif.The A/TA symposium is an annual event which allows

  • JB Charleston's Honor Guard presents the Colors at Panthers game

    The Joint Base Charleston Honor Guards teamed up to form a Joint Service Color Guard and presented the Colors for a crowd of nearly 74,000 during the Carolina Panthers - Denver Broncos football game Nov. 11, 2012, in Charlotte, N.C.The Joint Service Color Guard participated in the event as a

  • JACCE deploys to JB MDL to liaise AF assets for hurricane-relief effort

    Air Forces Northern deployed an element here Nov. 2 to the heart of military hurricane-support efforts in New York and New Jersey.Joint Air Component Command Element provides a liaison billet to coordinate with the Joint Force Land Component Command for employment of supplemental Air Force personnel

  • Hurricane Sandy knocks EC down, not out

    The U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center was prepared for Hurricane Sandy when the superstorm made landfall on Oct. 29 in southern New Jersey. What the organization was not expecting was the level of damage the storm caused to the building or the impact the damages would have on courses and programs

  • From coast to coast, the Contingency Response Wing answers Sandy's call

    The mobility Airmen in the 621st Contingency Response Wing are no strangers to the chaos of a disaster area, nor the destruction of a flood; it is the siren song of their role as Air Mobility Command's 9-1-1 force.But when Hurricane Sandy came to the New Jersey Shore Oct. 29, it brought that peril

  • Professional gathering signals a new approach to professional development

    Air Mobility Command is taking advantage of a single symposium to take the place of 11 separate conferences that would have otherwise been held throughout the past year. To get there, officials had to re-imagine how to get the same value out of 4-hour conferences at a single symposium that they had

  • APS Airman honored at American Red Cross heroes breakfast

    An Airman from the 62nd Aerial Port Squadron was honored Oct. 24 at the 2012 American Red Cross Pierce County Heroes Breakfast.Staff Sgt. Landon Jensen, 62nd APS ramp services supervisor, received the "Military Hero Award" for saving a woman from a burning car last year. "Our annual heroes breakfast