AMC units redesignated
The change slated for March 15 affects the 615th Air Mobility Support Group at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, and its squadrons throughout the Pacific, and the 621st AMSG at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and its squadrons throughout Europe. The 615th will become the 715th Air Mobility Operations Group and the 621st becomes the 721st AMOG.
The AMSGs are the remains of the Cold War air mobility support units. The AMOGs were created in the early 1990s during the reduction of U.S. forces overseas to consolidate manpower. The commanders of the numbered air forces and the AMC vice commander agreed the name change was needed, noting the groups were operations, not support.
The AMC groups and squadrons are part of the command's en route system to provide fixed and deployed maintenance, aerial port and command and control support to deployed AMC forces.
The support and operations groups have similar missions to provide critical en route services to our deployed AMC forces across the globe. The redesignation will now reflect those similar missions.
Squadron designations in the Pacific's new 715th AMOG will also change. The new names are: 730th Air Mobility Squadron, Yokota AB, Japan; 731st AMS, Osan AB, Korea; 732nd AMS, Elemendorf AFB, Alaska; 733d AMS, Kadena AB, Japan; 734th AMS, Andersen AFB, Guam and 735th AMS, Hickam AFB, Hawaii.
Squadrons in the European theater's 721st AMOG will carry the following designations: 723rd AMS, Ramstein AB; 725th AMS, Naval Air Station, Rota, Spain; 726th AMS, Rhein-Main AB, Germany; 727th AMS, Royal Air Forces Mildenhall, England; 728th AMS, Incirlik AB, Turkey and 729th AMS, Lajes Field, Azores. (FROM AIR MOBILITY COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS).
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