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  • Team Dover kicks off historic C-5 surge

    Seven C-5B Galaxy and C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft from Dover Air Force Base, Del., took off between Oct. 14 and Oct. 20 as part of a United States Transportation Command-wide 41-plane C-5 surge. The historic surge of the nation's largest military airlifters exercised the ability to fly cargo in

  • AMC Chief Scientist: Alternative fuels can be the ‘cleaner jet fuel’

    Just as the character "Doc" in the "Back to the Future" movie loaded the flux-capacitor of the time-travel modified 1975 DeLorean with a banana peel and trash from Marty McFly's garbage can, Air Force scientists are looking for the next readily available, renewable clean-burning aircraft fuel.Air

  • AMP project at Travis AFB brings C-5s into modern era

    With well-paying jobs harder to come by and a suffering economy, people are finding ways to make things last longer. There may have been a time when people would trade in their aging vehicles for a newer model, but that seems to be happening less and less as people are finding ways to stretch their

  • Airmen focus on fitness

    According to a July report, Joint Base Lewis-McChord Airmen are exceeding Air Mobility Command and Air Force averages on the year-old Air Force Fitness Test. Coming in just higher than AMC and as much as 3 percent higher than the Air Force overall in the "excellent" category, Airmen from the 62nd

  • Travis AFB hosts Tuskegee Airmen for annual ball

    The Lee A. Archer, Jr. Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. at Travis AFB will host the annual Tuskegee Airmen Fall Ball at the Delta Breeze Club on Oct. 22. The theme of this year's ball is "70 Years of Aviation Excellence -- Then, Now, The Future." The guest speaker will be Dr. Milton Chen, noted

  • 12-year heat plant decentralization program reaches completion

    An Air Mobility Command energy-saving project begun in the late 1990s ended with the completion of work to decentralize the heat plant at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The command is now completely centralized heat plant free, officials said."Centralized heat plants are inherently

  • Fairchild receives new transfer fuel line

    Project and construction managers here, along with Garco Construction, are in the process of finishing up a construction project which was awarded in June 2010 and began in August that year. The construction team has installed a new fuel transfer line that runs from off-base stretching nearly across

  • 1855: A special "tale"

    Chief Master Sgt. Mark Marson, 314th Airlift Wing command chief, wrote in permanent marker, "she is an Airman," on the 47-year-old skin of aircraft C-130E 62-1855 at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group here. The Vietnam-Era C-130E was delivered to AMARG, commonly known as the

  • Air Mobility Command’s response saves lives

    In wars, natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies, the Air Mobility Command's real-time global response capability saves lives and brings people home, Air Force Gen. Raymond E. Johns Jr. said Sept. 23.Johns, who commands AMC based at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., spoke to reporters here at a