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  • Keeping the airlift mission moving

    Mobility Air Force intra-theater airlifters have flown more than 74,000 sorties, delivering about 251,000 tons of cargo in the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility in 2008 and 2009 so far.  With the statistics soaring, airlift is making a strong case as a primary source of warfighting and life-sustaining

  • New C-5 inspection program saves money, keeps planes in the air

    A new inspection program being tested at Dover Air Force Base will not only save the Air Force $1.38 billion over the next two decades, it will also keep four extra C-5 Galaxy aircraft available every day for Air Mobility efforts. The new program -- which will change the way the Air Force conducts

  • AMC unveils official 'AMC Travel' site

    Air Mobility Command recently unveiled its first official, command-level AMC Travel Web site.People planning to travel the Air Mobility Command military travel system can now point their Web browsers to http://www.amc.af.mil/amctravel/index.asp for the latest in AMC travel information.The site,

  • RODEO 2009: Two Tuskegee Airmen visit RODEO

    Almost all Air Mobility RODEO 2009 guests have driven down Tuskegee Airmen Boulevard here, but most of them probably did not expect two of the Tuskegee Airmen themselves to be at RODEO. Retired Lt. Cols. Edward Drummond Jr. and Bill Holloman stopped at RODEO today during the opening ceremony to

  • RODEO 2009: New competition adds SPICE

    Air Mobility RODEO 2009 competition has some SPICE in it for the first time. Along with the usual montage of scheduled flying and ground events, contingency response wings from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., Travis AFB, Calif., and Ramstein Air Base, Germany, are also competing to set up the Small

  • RODEO 2009: Rainier Ranch serves as 'home away from home' for teams

    More than 100 teams from across the Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard and selected foreign countries are competing in Air Mobility Command's RODEO 2009. After hours, they need someplace to meet and greet - that's where Rainier Ranch comes into play. Named for the 14,410-foot Mount

  • AFGLSC transforms Air Force supply chain

    For more than a decade, Air Force supply chain leaders and their commercial industry peers have met with nearly identical objectives -- finding ways to enhance the Air Force supply chain to improve support to the warfighter. Recently, the Air Force Global Logistics Support Center, along with its

  • AMC supports humanitarian mission to Argentina

    Members of the 375th Logistics Readiness Squadron here June 12, loaded the 26,000-pound heart of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine onto a C-17 bound for Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. -- and ultimately Argentina. The MRI equipment was donated to a hospital in Salta, Argentina, by Washington

  • Maintaining the Fight: Air Mobility in Afghanistan

    Being in a fight is easy, it is having the ability to stay in the fight until you win that is the hard part. This is especially true in the new type of war being fought by the Coalition forces in Afghanistan where the enemy's strategy is to outlast the resolve and sustainment capability of U.S. and

  • U.S. Military Shepherds Humanitarian Aid to Pakistan

    Two Air Force C-17 airlifters have begun delivering humanitarian aid to internally displaced people in Pakistan's northwestern provinces, the chief U.S. defense representative said today. For Navy Rear Adm. Michael A. Lefevre, who works out of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, the humanitarian effort