AFMC Command News

  • U.S. Air Force Rolls Out New Mission Statement

    PENTAGON, Virginia – The Air Force released its new mission statement: To fly, fight, and win … Airpower anytime, anywhere. This change emphasizes the primary competitive advantage and capabilities that Airpower provides to the nation and joint operations.The ability to fight and win with Airpower

  • CHPS promotes the DOWNSIZED Challenge

    Reshape your life this spring by participating in the DOWNSIZED Weight Management Challenge with Civilian Health Promotion Services. The challenge encourages participants to strive for a healthy weight by learning healthy lifestyle habits for nutrition and physical activity. Both Federal Civilian

  • Tinker privatized housing continues to see improvements

    At the end of a well-advertised housing town hall event in February, Tinker Air Force Base Commander, Col. Paul Filcek, asked the roughly two dozen in attendance how many of them actually live in base housing. After eight hands went up, Filcek then asked them to put their hands down if they were

  • Test Pilot school graduates first Space Test Fundamentals class

    The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School graduated the first-ever Space Test Fundamentals class April 6, 2021, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, the U.S. Space Force chief of space operations, was on-hand to give the graduation address.

  • Training for the physical fitness assessment

    Physical fitness assessments will resume for Airmen on July 1, 2021.Some Airmen may be deconditioned due to the impacts of COVID-19 protocols and lack of accessibility for fitness options. To assist military members preparing for the PT test, Air Force Materiel Command has developed a physical

  • AFMC command team visits Team Robins

    Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr., Air Force Materiel Command commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Stanley Cadell, AFMC command chief, visited Team Robins to receive various updates on initiatives and campaigns within the 78th Air Base Wing, the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, the 638th Supply Chain

  • National Welding Month: Welders play vital role in AEDC mission

    Welding is the process of using high heat to fuse metal together. At Arnold Air Force Base, the headquarters for Arnold Engineering Development Complex, there are boilermakers, pipefitters, ironworkers, sheet metal workers and machinists in the Model and Machine Shop who specialize in the skill of

  • AFRL successfully completes XQ-58A Valkyrie flight and payload release test

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory successfully completed the XQ-58A Valkyrie’s sixth flight test and first release from its internal weapons bay, March 26, 2021 at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. This test, conducted in partnership with Kratos UAS and

  • Board releases report on fatal motor vehicle accident

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO – Air Force Materiel Command released findings of the Ground Accident Investigation Board which examined a vehicle accident that claimed the life of a deployed AFMC security forces member in Kuwait on Sept. 12, 2020. Senior Airman Jason Khai Phan, 26, died

  • Full speed ahead: Mach 18 now available to test customers at AEDC Tunnel 9

    Test customers in need of serious speed are lining up to take advantage of an unprecedented capability now available at Arnold Engineering Development Complex Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 in White Oak, Md.Calibration of the Mach 18 system was completed at Tunnel 9 in July 2020, less than two months