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  • New plan promotes energy conservation

    In February, Dover will begin construction to decentralize its aging heat plant, which is expected to save the base about $1.9 million a year.This project is estimated to cost just under $25 million and is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 with four contracts already

  • AMC wins Air Force Organizational Excellence Award

    Air Mobility Command was recognized with its eighth Air Force Organizational Excellence Award Jan. 22.  Air Force officials announced the 2008-2009 U.S. Air Force unit awards naming 16 units among the Air Force's best in five categories.The AFOEA recognizes the achievements and accomplishments of

  • Pope contracting NCO leads deployed contingency contracting flight

    In a deployed location, getting items and services a deployed unit needs often means someone has to go out and get it. Most often, that job goes to people like Tech. Sgt. Craig Castleman and his contingency contracting flight with the 380th Expeditionary Contracting Squadron here at a non-disclosed

  • AMC Commander visits Georgia, Florida wings

    General Raymond E. Johns Jr., commander of Air Mobility Command, visited the 165th Airlift Wing, the 6th Air Mobility Wing and the 927th Air Refueling Wing to continue his efforts to view the air mobility mission "through the eyes of the Airmen."General Johns, who took the seat as AMC commander in

  • Department of Defense focuses on F-35 costs, fair tanker competition

    Pentagon officials are working to halt spiraling costs in the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter aircraft program, while ensuring competition for a new refueling tanker remains fair to all contenders, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said in New York City Dec. 2. Deputy Secretary

  • Mobility Airman named 'Warrior of the Week' at deployed base

    Capt. Rich Martin, deployed to the 380th Expeditionary Operations Group at an undisclosed base here, was named the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing "Warrior of the Week" for the first week of December 2009 for multiple accomplishments during his deployment.Deployed from Air Mobility Command's Travis Air

  • Energy conservation requires shift in culture

    The Air Force is committed to conserving energy, and this takes a long-term change in the way Airmen think."Saving energy shouldn't be a task that we struggle to find time to do while at work, but rather a lifelong attitude we apply to all we do," Col. Mark A. Ruse, chief of the AMC Civil

  • Former MAC commander remembered

    Gen. Paul K. Carlton, former commander of the Military Airlift Command, passed away Nov. 23 at the age of 88 in San Antonio, Texas. General Carlton was commander of MAC from Sept. 26, 1972, to March 31, 1977."General Carlton's accomplishments as a commander will be remembered and honored; he

  • AMC announces annual winners for manpower, personnel, services

    Air Mobility Command's Manpower, Personnel and Services (A1) Directorate announced their annual award winners for fiscal year 2009 on Nov. 24. Col. Lee O. Wyatt, AMC's A1 director, said the winners are "individual and team superstars who provided outstanding personnel (civilian/military), manpower