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  • 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

  • Virtual reality treatment speeds recovery from PTSD

    The Air Force has recently introduced new virtual reality-based software to help Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans combat post traumatic stress disorder.The software, introduced to eight bases in the Air Force, is designed to create a safe environment for redeployers

  • The 1930s: A lag, but not the end of aerial refueling

    Editor's note: This is the third article in a series of articles highlighting the history of aerial refueling and the important role aerial refueling has played in American military history.After the success of the Question Mark's Jan. 1929 aerial refueling flight, and the operational shortcomings

  • Air refueling development lags

    Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles highlighting the history of aerial refueling and the important role aerial refueling has played in American military history. After the success of the Question Mark's Jan. 1929 aerial refueling flight, and the operational shortcomings of the

  • AMC's execution hub serves as 'virtual crewmember' worldwide

    Members of the 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center conducted a series of town hall briefings at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., and McChord Air Force Base, Wash., in mid-January to foster the concept of the 618th TACC as a 'virtual crewmember' for Air Mobility Command crews operating worldwide. The