Air Force Materiel Command has folded the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, better known as the Boneyard, into its “operational” reorganization structure, renaming AMARC as the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group. The new group, which still will operate at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., falls under the 309th Maintenance Wing at Hill AFB, Utah. According to the Hilltop Times, this is the center’s ninth name change over its 60-year history.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.