Air Mobility Command | |
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Active | 29 May 1941 – present (83 years, 5 months) Detailed
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Country | United States |
Branch | + United States Air Force (18 September 1947 – Present)
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Type | Major Command |
Role | "AMC's mission is to provide air mobility: Right Effects, Right Place, Right Time."[2] |
Size | 48,594 airmen 430 aircraft[3] |
Part of | U.S. Transportation Command |
Headquarters | Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, U.S. |
Nickname(s) | "reach" (callsign used) |
Motto(s) | "We answer the call of others... so that they may prevail."[4] |
Engagements | World War II – American Theater Global War on Terrorism[1] |
Decorations | Air Force Organization Excellence Award[1] |
Website | www |
Commanders | |
Commander | Gen John Lamontagne |
Deputy Commander | Lt Gen Rebecca Sonkiss |
Command Chief | CMSgt Jamie L. Newman |
Aircraft flown | |
Transport | C-5, C-17A, C-20B/C, C-32A, C-37A, C-37B, C-21, C-40B, C-130H, LC-130H, C-130J, WC-130J, VC-25A |
Tanker | KC-135R, KC-10A, KC-46A |
The Air Mobility Command (AMC) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the U.S. Air Force. It is headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, east of St. Louis, Missouri.[5]
Air Mobility Command was established on 1 June 1992, and was formed from elements of the inactivated Military Airlift Command (MAC) and Strategic Air Command (SAC). AMC melded MAC's worldwide airlift system of primarily C-5 Galaxy, C-141 Starlifter (later replaced by C-17 Globemaster III beginning in 1995), and C-130 Hercules airlift aircraft with SAC's tanker force of KC-135 Stratotanker and KC-10 Extender aerial refueling aircraft, the latter air refueling aircraft having been freed from their strategic nuclear strike commitment to SAC's B-52 Stratofortress and B-1 Lancer bomber fleet by the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[5]
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