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  • 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

  • Flight of the 'Question Mark'

    Editor's note: This is the first 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 Jan. 1, 1929, a tri-engined Fokker C-2 aircraft with a crew of five climbed into the southern California

  • McChord Airmen fuel Operation Deep Freeze

    Airmen from the 446th and 62nd Airlift Wings assigned to the 304th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in support of Operation Deep Freeze completed the first operational C-17 Globemaster III airdrop to the Antarctic Gamburtsev Mountain Province Nov. 26. Thirty bundles of fuel and other supplies were

  • Air Mobility Command air traffic controllers lauded for excellence

    The Air Traffic Control Association presented AMC's Terminal Instrument Procedures team with the Earl F. Ward Memorial Award at its 53rd annual conference and exposition held in Washington, D.C., Nov. 4.This international award is presented annually to the air traffic control group that demonstrated

  • Air Mobility Command embraces culture of constant safety

    People are the focus of Air Mobility Command's efforts to improve safety and implement the Voluntary Protection Program, or VPP, across the command.VPP is well known in the private sector for helping employees take an active role to improve their workplace safety. VPP will shift the Air Force's

  • Air Force, industry leaders share best-practices to encourage 'lean'

    Air Force senior leaders got a lesson in Air Force Smart Operations during a two-day class with university and industry officials in Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 28 and 29. The commanders of Air Mobility Command and Air Combat Command, along with 18 general officers and chief master sergeants, attended the