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12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year: Becoming tomorrow’s DAF ambassadors today
September 19, 2023 — The Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen for 2023 were recognized and honored during the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference Sept. 9-13. Master Sgt. Michael A. Galindo, Chief of Weapons and Tactics with the 502nd Security Forces Group at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, was one of the selectees... MORE

Around the Air Force: Defense Innovation, Defender 23, Prepping the Line
May 19, 2023 — In this week’s look around the Air Force, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall talks about the future of innovation and collaboration with partners and allies, the Air Force supports Defender 23, an Army-led international exercise in Europe, and new supervisors have an additional resource to ready themselves for taking care of Airmen. (Hosted by Staff Sgt. Milton Hamilton)... MORE

Air Mobility Command reopens Space-Available travel
April 26, 2022 — As of April 22, all restrictions on space-available, or Space-A, travel have been lifted... MORE

A C-130J Super Hercules taxis on the flightline at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, as Airmen from the 19th Airlift Wing return from a deployment, April 4, 2022. Airmen from the 19th AW deployed to Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, which is known as U.S. Central Command’s Theater Gateway, and is capable of responding to contingencies throughout the area of responsibility through tactical airlift operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Maria Umanzor Guzman)

MICC contract specialist earns AMC top quarterly honors
April 5, 2022 — A contract specialist with the Mission and Installation Contracting Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston was recognized during a March 30 ceremony for earning honors as the Army Materiel Command top employee of the quarter... MORE

U.S. Army Installation Management Command hosts AMC commander
July 27, 2021 — Gen. Edward Daly, commanding general, U.S. Army Materiel Command, visited Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston July 23 to discuss the important missions U.S. Army Installation Management Command performs to take care of the Army’s people... MORE

Gen. Edward Daly, commanding general, Army Materiel Command, receives updates

IMCOM drives change for the Army
October 2, 2020 — Gen. Edward Daly, commanding general of Army Materiel Command, visited Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Sept. 25 to collaborate with and provide guidance to the leadership of U.S. Army Installation Management Command... MORE

Lt. Gen. Douglas M. Gabram (right), commanding general, U.S. Army Installation Management Command, speaks with Gen. Edward Daly (left), commanding general, Army Materiel Command, Sept. 25 in the IMCOM Operations Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Daly came to IMCOM to collaborate with and provide guidance to the command’s leadership.

Garrison commanders are the center of gravity in the fight against COVID-19
May 25, 2020 — Gen. Gus Perna, commanding general of U.S. Army Materiel Command, addressed U.S. Army Installation Management Command leaders around the world during a video teleconference May 18 from IMCOM headquarters at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston... MORE

Lt. Gen. Douglas Gabram (far right), commanding general, U.S. Army Installation Management Command, lays out IMCOM's measured approach to transitioning stateside garrisons to reduced Health Protection Conditions to Gen. Gustave Perna, commanding general, U.S. Army Materiel Command, during a video teleconference May 18 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston

Contracting pros deliver to COVID-19 front lines
April 10, 2020 — The Air Force Installation Contracting Center’s 763rd Specialized Contracting Squadron is one example of mission-focused agility in support of the greater fight, recently delivering a surplus of fast-tracked emergency support to Air Mobility Command in days, if not hours. ... MORE

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III is prepped to transport a transportation isolation system March 6, 2019, during a training exercise that allows Airmen to practice the most effective and safest form of transportation for patients and their medical professionals. Engineered and implemented after the Ebola virus outbreak in 2014, the TIS is an enclosure the Department of Defense can use to safely transport patients with highly contagious diseases. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cody R. Miller)

Air Mobility Command temporarily suspends most Space-A travel due to COVID-19
March 22, 2020 — Air Mobility Command has temporarily suspended most Space-Available travel aboard AMC and contracted aircraft, except for certain Category I, IV, and VI travel, effective March 21 in order to limit COVID-19’s spread and its impact on the force. ... MORE

AMC, IMCOM want to make every installation ‘Number One Choice’
February 20, 2020 — Gen. Gus Perna, commanding general, U.S. Army Materiel Command, visited San Antonio for his third quarterly update with U.S. Army Installation Management Command leadership at the command’s headquarters at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Feb. 18... MORE

AETC, AMC team up on VR solutions for modern C-130 training
January 27, 2020 — Headquarters Air Force, Air Mobility Command, and Air Education and Training Command have been working on a virtual-reality platform for maintenance training through Mass Virtual, a contractor that scans real-world objects to create virtual environments. ... MORE

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Kenneth Renfrow, 19th Maintenance Group maintenance qualifications training instructor, uses a virtual reality headset

Ensuring readiness for Soldiers, families
May 21, 2019 — As the Army's most important asset, Soldiers, and the families who support them, are the top priority in the mission to ensure readiness... MORE

Caring for military families living at Army installations is essential to ensuring Soldier readiness. Children such as Amore Cox, daughter of Spc. ShaTyra Reed stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, benefit from the family programs offered by the Army Materiel Command's Installation Management Command.

U.S. Army Installation Management Command transitions to Army Materiel Command
March 13, 2019 — The U.S. Army Installation Management Command was formally acknowledged as a major subordinate command of Army Materiel Command during an assumption of authority ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston March 8... MORE

Gen. Gus Perna (left), commanding general of Army Materiel Command, assists in unfurling the AMC flag, along with IMCOM Command Sgt. Maj. Melissa A. Judkins and Lt. Gen. Bradley A. Becker, IMCOM commanding general. An assumption of authority ceremony was held March 8 at Joint Base Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to commemorate IMCOM becoming a major subordinate command of AMC.

New AFIMSC office stresses ideas, innovation and implementation
January 11, 2019 — Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center's new innovation office is dedicated to tying together the vast innovation ecosystem with the Airmen at installations... MORE