Air mobility airmen are honing their battlefield skills in increasing numbers at the Air Mobility Warfare Center at Ft. Dix, N.J., where Air Mobility Command focuses its advanced education, training, and testing activities. Disciplines at the school are divided up into five courses—mobility weapons school, mobility operations school, expeditionary operations school, air mobility Battlelab, and the resources directorate. The center opened its doors in May 1994 and has expanded to host 59 courses and 5,000 in-resident students and more than 7,000 distance-learning students each year.
The Air Force wants to “own and run” more of its air bases, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach said Nov. 6, in what could be a major potential revamp the military’s joint base program. Speaking at the Airlift/Tanker Association’s 2026 Symposium, Wilsbach said he and the…