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  • Travis AFB celebrates C-17 groundbreaking

    The Travis AFB community celebrated the start of construction on four C-17 facilities April 1, with a groundbreaking ceremony hosted by Brig. Gen. Brad Baker, 60th Air Mobility Wing commander.Years in the planning, more than 100 base, civic and contractor representatives attended the event to kick

  • AMC captures four Air Force design awards

    Four Air Mobility Command design projects captured top honors as best in the Air Force during the 2004 U.S. Air Force Design and Construction Awards.In the Planning Studies and Design Guides category, the command earned a Citation Award for the Fairchild AFB, Wash., Survival School 10-Year Master

  • Robins work force helps support troop surge

    Robins' strategic airlift directorate workers are supporting a massive, joint service, multi-national operation to deploy and redeploy nearly a quarter-million U.S. troops and more than 1 million tons of equipment. The surge for strategic airlift including people and parts,

  • AMC outstanding Airmen to be recognized at April 15 banquet

    The Air Mobility Command Outstanding Airmen and First Sergeant of the Year Banquet is April 15 at the Scott AFB Club.During the banquet -- which honors the command's 12 Outstanding Airmen and First Sergeant of the Year finalists -- AMC officials will announce the command's four nominees for the Air

  • Air Force blue shines in a sea of Cardinal red

    For one Airman, opening day for the 2004 Major League Baseball season was pretty incredible, especially in St. Louis, where fans are passionate about the professional sports teams they claim as their own.For Staff Sgt. Kelly Grant-Ramstack, opening day Monday at Busch Stadium, it wasnt just the

  • Spangdahlem reaches final phase of Rhein-Main transition

    - Lt. Gen. William Welser III, 18th Air Force commander, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., and a team of mobility leaders visited here Saturday to gain a first-hand look at the base's progress in the Rhein-Main transition. The team's visit followed a trip to Ramstein AB and provided 52nd Fighter Wing

  • AMC Airmen chosen for 'Tops in Blue'

    Air Force officials selected seven Air Mobility Command Airmen for the 2004 Tops in Blue team. Winners were chosen from contestants who participated in the 2004 Air Force Worldwide Talent Contest at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.The entertainment branch of the Air Force Services Agency conducts

  • AMC announces senior officer, senior leader assignments

    Air Mobility Command officials have announced the following senior officer and senior leader assignments:Col. Michael J. Basla, director of communications, information and chief information officer, Headquarters AMC, will become deputy director, Operations Support Modernization, Deputy Chief of

  • C-5 shop trimming flow days, taking on extra workload

    C-5 production branch experts here cutting 43 days off the cargo giant's A and B model programmed depot maintenance time is earning them extra work which puts more aircraft back in the fight quicker.The new workload includes depainting seven of the 18 aircraft currently scheduled for PDM, torque

  • AMC announces O'Malley Award nominee

    Gen. John W. Handy, Air Mobility Command and U.S. Transportation Command commander, has announced AMC's nominee for the 2003 General and Mrs. Jerome F. O'Malley Award.Colonel and Mrs. Brooks Bash, 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB, S.C., were chosen to represent AMC at the upcoming Air Force-level