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Retired Chief Master Sgt. John Akers -- a former tanker boom operator -- talks about his experiences in air refueling during the Vietnam War as part of the Air Mobility Command Tanker "Living Legends" Speaker Series in the Global Reach Planning Center at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., on Sept. 24, 2009. Chief Akers flew 167 combat missions in support of Southeast Asia operations for the Vietnam War and has more than 5,000 career hours of flying time. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol)


Tanker Living Legends Speaker Series - Vietnam

Retired Chief Master Sgt. John Akers -- a former tanker boom operator -- talks about his experiences in air refueling during the Vietnam War as part of the Air Mobility Command Tanker "Living Legends" Speaker Series in the Global Reach Planning Center at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., on Sept. 24, 2009. Chief Akers flew 167 combat missions in support of Southeast Asia operations for the Vietnam War and has more than 5,000 career hours of flying time. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol)

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Air Mobility Command was created on June 1, 1992, when the Military Airlift Command and Strategic Air Command were inactivated. Elements of those two organizations, MAC's worldwide airlift system and SAC's KC-10 and KC-135 tanker force, combined to form AMC.
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An F-16C Fighting Falcon receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker during an in-air refueling mission over Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM on July 22, 2014. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.)
Responding to a short-notice request from the National Science Foundation, a C-17 Globemaster III crew from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, alongside Aeromedical Evacuation and Critical Care Air Transport Team Airmen, safely evacuated an ailing contractor from McMurdo Station, Antarctica Apr. 22. After the C-17 safely landed at McMurdo Station, it was grounded for only 35 minutes while the patient was transferred on board. The patient received in-air medical care from the AE and CCAT crews aboard the C-17. (Photo provided by Joint Task Force - Support Forces Antarctica)
Mission planning and command-and-control for the Air Mobility Command contributions to both the humanitarian relief efforts in Japan and Operation ODYSSEY DAWN were led by AMC's Tanker Airlift Control Center at Scott AFB, Ill. As AMC's hub for global operations, the TACC plans, schedules and directs a fleet of nearly 1,300 mobility aircraft in support of strategic airlift, air refueling and aeromedical evacuation operations around the world. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Capt. Justin Brockhoff)
Airmen from the 137th Airlift Squadron, New York Air National Guard, and Marines from the initial response force unload equipment from a C-5 Galaxy at Yokota Air Base April 3, 2011. After the March 11 earthquake off the Japanese coast, Airmen from Air Mobility Command, Pacific Air Forces joined a team of responders to bring humanitarian assistance and disaster relief - Operation TOMODACHI - and fly DoD voluntary returnees and their loved ones back to the U.S - Operation PACIFIC PASSAGE. (U.S. Air Force phot BY/Master Sgt. Jeromy K. Cross)
Senior Airman Samantha Brunner, a 332nd Expeditionary Aerospace Medical Squadron aerospace medical service journeyman, helps rack a patient onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Nov. 27, 2008, during an aeromedical evacuation mission in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Air Mobility Command performed patient movements non-stop since OIF began, transporting more than 150,000 patients to critical medical care. AMC’s aeromedical evacuation efforts increased the odds of surviving a combat injury to approximately 98 percent by expediting the return of wounded servicemembers to the U.S. within three days or less (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jason Epley).
A 940th Aerial Refueling Wing KC-135E Stratotanker from Beale Air Force Base, Calif. prepares to refuel two F-16 Fighting Falcons during an Operation NOBLE EAGLE training patrol March 16, 2004. NOBLE EAGLE began on Sept. 11, and Mobility Airmen were essential to the support effort. NOBLE EAGLE’S core mission is the air defense of the U.S. homeland. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Lance Cheung)
Tanker maintenance troops from the 319th Air Refueling Wing at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., watch as a tanker from the 22nd ARW at McConnell AFB, Kan., rolls off into the sunset for a night air-refueling mission for Operation ENDURING FREEDOM on Sept. 27, 2003. Tanker units from Grand Forks; McConnell; MacDill AFB, Fla; Robins AFB, Ga.; and Fairchild AFB, Wash., combined in Southwest Asia for a short time to work together in the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol)
Airman First Class Thomas Messick of the 514th Security Forces Squadron, at then-McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., guards the McGuire flightline on Sept. 11, 2001, in response to the terrorist attacks at the Pentagon, the World Trade Center of New York City and in Pennsylvania. Air Mobility Command’s response to the attacks was immediate. At McGuire, now named Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, search and rescue teams and medical supplies were airlifted by AMC aircraft and crews on Sept. 12. McGuire became the designated site by FEMA to house and feed urban search and rescue teams operating in New York City. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Ken Mann)
A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III comes to life on the ramp at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, as its crew prepares for a mission to Tiranë, Albania, April 11, 1999. Operation SUSTAIN HOPE was a U.S. effort to bring humanitarian aid and establish camps for the refugees fleeing from the Former Republic of Yugoslavia into Albania and Macedonia. The C-17 Globemasters deployed from the 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Efrain Gonzalez)
615th Air Mobility Group personnel unload equipment from a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy at an operating base in Southwest Asia Feb. 11, 1998 in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, which established and enforced a no-fly zone over Iraq. U.S. Air Force personnel from the 715th and 815th Air Mobility Squadron operated as a Tanker Airlift Control Element (TALCE), controlling all U.S. airlift traffic in and out of their deployed location. The 615th, 715th and 815th were deployed from Travis Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Efrain Gonzalez)