AMC leadership looks to the future during visit to MacDill AFB - macdill.af.mil

Team MacDill welcomed Gen. Mike Minihan, commandant of Air Mobility Command, and Chief Master Sgt. Brian Kruzelnick, AMC bid chief, for a basal circuit Nov. 22, 2022.

The circuit highlighted the 6th Air Refueling Wing’s relation successful AMC’s ngo and however it mightiness alteration connected the roadworthy to Exercise Mobility Guardian, acceptable to instrumentality spot successful 2023 successful the Pacific.

“The 6th ARW has an incredibly important portion to play successful today’s warfighting,” said Minihan. “As the advancement of the pacing situation accelerates change, the 6th ARW conducted a capstone workout backmost successful August which proved that 72-hours of continuous aerial refueling operations tin beryllium accomplished successful a simulated contested theatre. We tin usage this cognition to guarantee combat occurrence successful immoderate aboriginal conflicts.”

Throughout the two-day tour, the AMC bid squad visited the 6th Security Forces Squadron Marine Patrol unit, 6th Maintenance Group, 6th ARW Bolt Cell, and held an each telephone with the 50th and 91st Air Refueling Squadrons.

“It means a batch to america that the AMC bid squad is capable to travel and talk with our unit,” said Master Sgt. Juan Romero, the formation superintendent with the 6th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. “AMC’s enactment has done a large occupation successful incorporating the thought of ACE, on with a wide imaginativeness for the aboriginal of AMC.”

The 6th Air Refueling Wing looks guardant to the upcoming modulation from the KC-135 Stratotanker to the KC-46A Pegasus aircraft, which volition necessitate caller infrastructure, grooming mechanisms and organizational operation astir the base.

“My biggest takeaway is however assured I americium successful the aboriginal of our Air Force aft speaking and gathering with our Airmen,” Minihan said. “Their dedication, creativity and innovation are genuinely impressive. It volition play a immense relation successful the upcoming challenges that the Department of Defense whitethorn face.”