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Air Mobility Command Supports Firefighting Efforts

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Scott Air Force Base, Ill. --  Since the Department of Defense response to the Southern California wildfires began, Air Mobility Command has played an important role, airlifting people and equipment to assist firefighting and recovery efforts in the region.  

Air Mobility Command's 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center has moved 102.8 short tons of equipment to March Air Reserve Base including: a mobile aeromedical staging facility, an aeromedical evacuation liaison team, a critical care air transport team, an aeromedical evacuation crew the US Army North Operations Command Post and an ARNORTH Emergency Response Team.

Twenty-five aeromedical evacuation personnel from Air Mobility Command have deployed to the region as well as an aeromedical planner who is serving with the Airlift Command and Control element, Channel Islands Air National Guard Base at Point Mugu. 

In addition aircraft from McChord, Charleston, Travis, McGuire and Grand Forks air force bases are on alert. A C-130 from March ARB remains on alert to support aeromedical operations. 

In addition, Guard and Reserve units from California, Wyoming, North Carolina and Colorado have flown dozens of missions fighting fires using C-130s equipped with the military airborne fire fighting system. 

The 618th TACC is the global air operations center responsible for centralized command and control of Air Force and commercial contract air mobility assets, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It plans, schedules and tracks tanker, airlift and aeromedical evacuation aircraft worldwide to efficiently and effectively accomplish Air Mobility Command's Global Reach mission. The organization is capable of seamlessly transitioning from day-to-day operations to contingency support or disaster relief.