Air Force Materiel Command

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The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) is one of the ten main commands of the United States Air Force , headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio , USA . General Arnold W. Bunch is in command .

tasks

It is responsible for the development, procurement and maintenance of the technology and equipment of the United States Air Force . The AFMC also includes the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson , Arizona , a huge open-air storage facility for aircraft that are mothballed there and some years later reactivated, cannibalized or scrapped.

The Edwards AFB in California serves as the base of the Air Force Flight Test Center , testing the new aircraft models there and weapon systems.

The Wright-Patterson AFB houses various research facilities as well as the AFMC's National Museum of the United States Air Force .

At the end of September 2006, the AFMC had around 20,700 active soldiers, plus 58,300 civilian employees and 2,750 reservists.

history

Aerospace Maintenance & Regeneration Center of the AFMC

Since 1917 there was an Equipment Division of the US Army Signal Corps responsible for equipment . After the First World War , independent units were created for research and development on the one hand and logistics on the other, but they were merged again in the late 1940s to form the Air Materiel Command . As early as 1950, the USAF spun off the Air Research and Development Command , which was responsible for research and development, and reorganized it on April 1, 1961 as Air Force Systems Command . At the same time, the Air Materiel Command became the Air Force Logistics Command . These two commands finally merged on July 1, 1992 to form today's Air Force Materiel Command .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official biography of the AFMC (last accessed on May 31, 2019).