AFMC Command News

  • AFSO 21 changes improve C-17 availability at McChord

    Airmen here are using Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st century to come up with more efficient ways to use available C-17 Globemaster IIIs for training missions during the week. By shortening the turn time of each aircraft from three hours and 15 minutes to two hours and using an engine

  • Thinking lean, a must for stronger, smaller Air Force

    The U.S. Air Forces in Europe vice commander, Maj. Gen. Marc Rogers, spent time with senior leaders at Incirlik Air Base to discuss the importance of Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century, or AFSO21. General Rogers began with a big picture explanation of the Air Force's strong focus on the

  • AFSO 21: Fairchild initiative reduces wait for critical parts

    A maintenance technician here used to wait up to an hour to get a screw and washer before he could complete a KC-135 Stratotanker repair on the flightline. Soon, thanks to an Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st century initiative at the 92nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, he is just minutes away

  • AFSO 21 money-saving initiative increases capabilities

    A cross-squadron team of Airmen from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing have succeeded in another Air Force Smart Operations 21 initiative that will continue to increase combat capability for the wing, and save money which can be diverted into Air Force recapitalization priorities. An initiative was

  • Robins 'War Wagons' bring maintenance to warfighters

    When the Department of Defense has an aircraft in need of repair and the situation requires a traveling repairman, it looks to one Air Force Materiel Command base for assistance. The 402nd Commodities Maintenance Group here maintains a one-of-a-kind resource -- two War Wagons -- which deploy around

  • AMARC becomes 309th AMARG in redesignation ceremony

    In an activation ceremony here May 2, the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center was officially redesignated as the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, under the 309th Maintenance Wing located at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Brig. Gen. Arthur B. Cameron III, commander of the

  • Two from Robins earn Bronze Star Medals

    Master Sgt Gary Chelette and Bryan Braud received the Bronze Star Medal May 14 for their actions in Iraq. Sergeant Chelette, a crew chief with the 653rd Combat Logistics Support Squadron, distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding achievement in

  • Brig. Gen. Close to command Ogden Air Logistics Center

    Brig. Gen. Kathleen D. Close has been selected to become the next commander of the Ogden Air Logistics Center here.General Close is currently the Director of Maintenance within the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Installations and Mission Support, Headquarters Air Force, Washington, D.C. She

  • Research lab team earns modeling and simulation honor

    Efforts to advance experimentation war gaming within the Air Force and the Defense Department resulted in a team from the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate receiving the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Experimentation Award for 2006. The team, which consists of team

  • Global Logistics Support Center (Provisional) stands up

    Air Force Materiel Command's newest unit designed to consolidate logistics aid officially stood up during a May 7 ceremony here. The Global Logistics Support Center (Provisional) is tasked with standing up the GLSC, which will become the Air Force supply chain management process owner, providing

  • International flight surgeons train at Brooks

    International flight surgeons from the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine partnered with the Critical Care Air Transport Team course in May to gain experience not available elsewhere.The flight surgeons are a part of the Advanced Aerospace Medicine for International Medical Officers, or

  • EOD technicians garner medals

    Three explosive ordnance technicians from the 96th Civil Engineer Squadron received Bronze Stars here May 14 for their heroics while deployed.Working in Iraq and Afghanistan, two of the most heavily mined nations in the world, is a daily threat for explosive disposal technicians. The work is

  • New facility paints bright future for Air Force aircraft

    A new facility designed around the need to house a C-5 Galaxy for paint application and removal officially opened here May 9.According to Maj. Gen. Tom Owen, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center commander, the aircraft corrosion control hangar optimizes the paint removal and application process for

  • Robins unit helps Egyptian Air Force repair C-130s

    A 12-person team from the 653rd Combat Logistics Support Squadron here has returned after spending more than six months in Egypt to help the Egyptian Air Force's C-130s take to the skies again. The team, consisting of various aircraft experts from the unit, traveled to Helwan, Egypt, an area 20