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.
Air Force F-16 pilot Lt. Col. Eric R. Emerson, who commanded a small quick reaction force of fighters responding to Iranian-backed militia groups in 2024, became the first Air National Guardsman presented with the Anthony C. Shine Award on Feb. 10.
