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  • 521st AMOW host training for Incirlik Air Base maintainers

    521st AMOW: 2020, a year in review

    As the first light of dawn broke on Jan. 1, 2020, no one could have predicted the course of the year. Despite the challenges and pressures, the Airmen of the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing exemplified our motto “Depend on us!”

  • 313th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron innovates operation planning

    A 3-D printing machine builds three-to-one scale, three-dimensional models of geographic areas along flight routes near Ramstein Air Base.The 313th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron is using the technology to enhance operational planning.
  • U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. John Gordy, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, hands a coin to Staff Sgt. Cody Griswold, 721 Aircraft Maintenance Squadron vehicle noncommissioned officer, for outstanding performance in his unit at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, March 14, 2019.

    Air Force Expeditionary Center commander visits 521st AMOW units

    U. S. Air Force Maj Gen John Gordy, Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, visited organizations aligned under the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing. The squadrons, detachments, and operating locations that comprise the 521st AMOW are part of the global air mobility support system.
  • U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Richard Leseberg, 721st Aerial Port Squadron, noncommissioned officer in charge of in-transit munitions facility, loads a pallet of rations onto a truck on Ramstein Air Base, Germany Oct. 31, 2018. The 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing hosted a flight commander course instructing company grade officers who are slated to lead operations like logistics in flight commander roles. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Devin M. Rumbaugh)

    Flight commanders: Leading the charge

    Sixteen company grade officers assigned to the 86th Airlift Wing and 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing attended the 521st AMOW flight commander’s course on Ramstein Air Base, Germany Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2018.
  • Air Mobility Command C-5’s sit on the flight line at Naval Station Rota, Spain, April 17. Rota and Moron Air Base, Spain, absorbed many U.S. military flights that were diverted from Northern European Routes due to the airspace closure caused by ash being spewed from the Iceland volcanic eruption. Rota typically averages about eight to 13 flights a day but saw double that amount over the weekend. Moron, which is about an hours drive north of NAVSTA Rota, averages one or two flights a day. Over the weekend, it had about 10 times that amount. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Keith Meyers)

    521st AMOW celebrates 10th Anniversary

    The 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing will celebrate its tenth anniversary and long history of safely expediting maximum war-fighting and humanitarian effects through rapid and precise global air mobility across a more than 5000 mile area of responsibility Sept. 4, 2018, on Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
  • 521st AMOW annual awards

    Expeditionary Center commander recognizes 521 AMOW’s year of velocity

    Airmen of the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing hosted Maj. Gen. Christopher Bence, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, during their annual awards banquet here Feb. 23.The event provided not only an opportunity to recognize individual nominees and annual award winners for their hard work, but it also unified the combined accomplishments
  • NASA maintainers check fuses on the Armstrong Flight Research Center, DC-8 jetliner before takeoff. NASA travels with their on maintainers to help support whatever the required mission is.

    NASA study supported by 721st AMOG

    The 721st Air Mobility Operations Group provided aircraft ground service support to the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Armstrong Flight Research Center and to the German Aerospace Agency as they performed a study on biofuels from Jan. 17 to the 19 on Ramstein Air Base.
  • Airmen from the 721st Aerial Port Squadron, part of the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing, move cargo at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, March 25, 2016. The 721st APS set an airlift record July 27 for the heaviest cargo loaded onto a commercial aircraft in support of a channel mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Armando A. Schwier-Morales)

    Aerial porters set airlift record

    The 721st Aerial Port Squadron, which is part of the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, set a record July 27 for the heaviest cargo loaded onto a commercial aircraft in support of a channel mission. The aerial porters planned and packed 120 tons construction material onto 31 single pallets and five two-pallet trains, and then loaded the pallets onto a 747 cargo plane bound for Afghanistan.
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