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  • AMC Airmen: 'Time to showcase your singing talent'

    Airmen at AMC wings and affiliate units will have the opportunity to showcase their singing talents this summer during "AMC Icon," an annual command-wide contest to crown the best Air Force vocalist in AMC. "We're excited to once again offer mobility Airmen the opportunity to showcase the vocal

  • AMC's operations hub plans missions to deliver MRAPs to Afghanistan

    Air Mobility Command's hub for global airlift, air refueling and aeromedical evacuation is "all in" with its commitment to support joint worldwide operations, including efforts to deliver Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles to support the increasing U.S. presence in Afghanistan.The vehicles,

  • Defense task force seeks feedback on sexual assault in military

    Members of the Defense Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military Services visited Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst recently to speak with base leaders, sexual assault response coordinators and other base personnel. The task force, which was chartered by Congress to look at sexual assault programs

  • ‘6S’ leads to AMC success

    Air Mobility Command Airmen recently spent a day focused on using the "6S" method to reduce clutter, inefficient processes, waste and more in their work spaces.6S is a six-step process that stands for safety, sort, straighten, shine, standardize and sustain."Through the 6S method, Airmen learn to

  • VA answers questions about Post-9/11 GI Bill

    Since Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. military forces have worked overtime to ensure the nation's safety and security. To return the favor, the government is rolling out one of their most comprehensive educational benefits package for servicemembers since the original Servicemen's Readjustment Act of

  • 618th TACC celebrates 17 years of global mobility excellence

    When U.S. military and coalition forces need airlift, air refueling or aeromedical evacuation assets anywhere on the globe, there's a good chance the 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center, who celebrated the 17th anniversary of its activation Wednesday, is involved. The 618th TACC, a 700-person

  • Transition to AMC SharePoint site set for April 3

    Air Mobility Command officials moved one step closer to making it easier to share information within squadrons, wings and across all of AMC on March 20, wrapping up a 14-month Enterprise Information Management deployment tour across the command.The seven-person EIM team spent three weeks at McChord,

  • Course trains Air Force intelligence analysts in ground combat operations

    Air Force intelligence analysts have been trained to focus on air threats since they first entered the service. There's now a need for them to be trained to provide support for world-wide ground combat and force protection operations. The Air Force Force Protection Intelligence Formal Training Unit

  • U.S. military aerial refueling: extending 'the reach'

    Editor's note: This is the fourth article in a series of articles highlighting the history of aerial refueling and the important role aerial refueling has played in American military history.On Aug. 6, 1946, the world's largest bomber took to the air from the Consolidated-Vultee plant on the south