AFMC Command News

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Ogden ALC named top Air Force maintenance depot

    The Ogden Air Logistics Complex won the 2020 Maintenance Effectiveness Award recognizing it as the top depot in the Air Force. The award is presented annually to the unit that most successfully managed resources to provide safe and serviceable equipment for sustained use in peacetime and wartime.

  • AFRL scientist selected for Undergraduate Pilot Training

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) - "I joined the Air Force twice," stated 1st Lt. James Wymer, who recently received notice he has been selected for Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) through the Air Force’s Fiscal Year 2021 Undergraduate Flying Training Selection Board. Wymer is a physicist

  • Vaccine team makes progress in Detroit

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The 120 Airmen from the 88th Medical Group who departed for a COVID-19 mission in Detroit have been diligent by putting shots in arms.The team has provided 5,000 vaccines a day, and another thousand have been delivered by mobile vaccination teams, which local

  • Celebrate military children in April, year round

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas -- Each year, communities worldwide look to April as an important month for children who have one or both parents or guardians serving in uniform. Considered the military’s youngest heroes, in many ways children serve too. That’s why we honor them during the

  • CEMIRT, APE hit the road for installation support in COVID-19 era

    TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – After a year of strict travel restrictions, teams with the Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Operation Directorate are back on the road more often in support of installations around the globe.Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the directorate had an aggressive travel

  • AFRL Executive Director to retire March 31

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Jack Blackhurst, executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory, will retire from federal service March 31 culminating a career of a combined 46 years of military and civilian federal service. The retirement ceremony will be broadcast live,

  • AFRL civilian receives NATO SET Panel Team Excellence Award

    Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy, the Radar Sensing technical lead with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Sensors Directorate, recently won the NATO Sensors and Electronic Technology Panel Team Excellence Award for his contributions to the NATO SET-ET-236 panel on compressive sensing for radar and