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  • Air Mobility Command, Airlift/Tanker Association hosts Technology Days 2006

    Air Mobility Command and the Airlift/Tanker Association held the third annual AMC Technology Days here May 8-10. “Harnessing Technologies to Increase Warfighter’s Speed and Precision” was the forum theme. Technology Days brought together Mobility Air Force operators, Air Force Research Lab, and

  • 'Hanoi Taxi' to retire at National Museum of the Air Force

    More than 120 former prisoners from the Vietnam War and their families will help the Air Force Reserve Command's 445th Airlift Wing retire the Air Force's last C-141 Starlifter, the "Hanoi Taxi," during festivities May 5 to 6. The aircraft was the first one to arrive in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February

  • Air Mobility Command, Airlift/Tanker Association to host Technology Days 2006

    Air Mobility Command and the Airlift/Tanker Association have set May 8-10 for the third annual AMC Technology Days here. Technology Days provides industry representatives the opportunity to come to Scott and present briefings and demonstrations of their companies’ newest technologies directly to the

  • Military OneSource aids servicemembers, dependents

    With deployments, permanent change of stations, tax season and everyday family and relationship issues, Airmen and their families have more than their share of things to be stressed about. But no matter what the issue, Military OneSource is available to help. Military OneSource provides information

  • Victory in North Carolina - Airmen, Soldiers, Marines win simulated war

    Three services came together Feb. 27 through March 3 to drop about 2,700 82nd Airborne paratroopers and several loads of equipment into a simulated war zone on Fort Bragg for the Joint Forcible Entry Exercise 06-03. “We called out this group of assets, put them together at Pope Air Force Base,

  • AMC command chief retires after 30 years of service

    Chief Master Sgt. Michael Kerver, command chief master sergeant of Air Mobility Command will retire Feb. 28 after 30 years of military service. Born and raised in Cleveland, Chief Kerver joined the Air Force in 1976 for one very simple reason. “I shared a bedroom with three other brothers, and I

  • AMC to begin using Smart Card Logon

    According to Air Mobility Command experts, the command is taking steps to bring the Smart Card Logon capability to the AMC unclassified network by March. Kevin Nettrour, the AMC Public Key Infrastructure Point of Contact, said a benefit of Smart Card Login is the capability to use digital

  • Wing, EPA back plan to treat contaminated base site

    The 89th Airlift Wing and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed a Record of Decision to address historic contamination of groundwater at Fire Training Area No. 4 here during a briefing of the base’s Environmental Restoration Program at the Maryland Department of the Environment

  • Warfare Center offers online courses

    Ever wondered how wartime planners decide the best ways to organize and deploy air mobility forces and assets? For instance, who goes in to start a bare base operation, security forces or the tanker airlift control element and flight? What are the variables in determining how many pallets you can