AFMC Command News

  • 38th CEIG hosts airspace security drone demonstration

     A small drone is flying over a military installation, when suddenly, like a bird of prey, an X-3 Drone Hunter swoops down and shoots a net at the drone, ensnaring it in the webbing and carries it back to the controller on the ground.  Sound like a scene out of the latest spy thriller movie? No. It

  • Air Force marks 72 years since official creation

      On Sept. 18, the United States Air Force will become 72 years old. Yet while this anniversary represents more than seven decades of the Air Force operating as a single organized entity, its history as one of the premier air powers in the world began at the turn of the twentieth century.President

  • Suicide Prevention Month: End the epidemic

    September is Suicide Prevention Month, a time set aside for military and civilian members here, as well as their families, to become familiar with resources available to help end death by suicide.

  • The person, the Airman, the wounded warrior

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Master Sgt. Sharina Elrod, with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Inspector General’s office, and a Wounded Warrior Ambassador, said she couldn’t wait to join the Air Force, serving her country and seeing the world. In 1998, the self-described “go-getter”

  • Bunch visits AFIMSC

    Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr., commander of Air Force Materiel Command, told an audience at an All Call Sept 5 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland that the missions the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center conducts are critical to ensuring national defense.

  • More than a team

    His dark brown eyes are fixated on the ball, waiting for the opposing team to dare to come onto his turf. Sweat is dripping down his face and he can feel his thighs beginning to burn from the defensive crouch he’s been holding.Nothing matters more in this moment than preventing the offense from

  • C-17 SPO, Boeing sign MOU for sustainment of C-17 fleet

    The C-17 System Program Office at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, reached a monumental milestone concluding with a historic signing of a memorandum of understanding between the program office and its prime contractor, The Boeing Company, Aug. 21, 2019.

  • Deaf intern expands growth, service to country in AFMC security spectrum

    Former Premier College intern Tina Banerjee continues to look beyond the challenges of being born deaf as she returns to Air Force Materiel Command as a Palace Acquire intern in the 88th Air Base Wing Information Protection organization.“For the longest time, I knew I wanted to serve my country

  • OEA Introduces the Energy StoryMap

    The Air Force Office of Energy Assurance (OEA) is excited to introduce a new tool that demonstrates how the team creates the pathway for energy resilience projects. The OEA StoryMap (https://arcg.is/1HDS8v) is an interactive web-based platform that visualizes the growth of an energy projects in the

  • Edwards takes tactical pause for resiliency

    The Resilience Tactical Pause is an ongoing opportunity for leaders at all levels to respond to the matter of suicide. The current trend of suicides in the Air Force have surpassed last year’s numbers at the same point in the year. The Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. David Goldfein, asked