660 Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

The 660th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron or 660 AMXS is stationed at Travis AFB. They provides combat ready maintenance personnel and organizational support to inspect, service, and repair all transient and 27 assigned KC-10 aircraft. Generates 24-hour-a-day strategic airlift and aerial refueling to support flying activities of four air refueling squadrons. Maintains mission ready aircraft capable of worldwide strategic airlift and air refueling support to Air Mobility Command's global mission.

The 660th Aircraft maintainers, keep the KC-10 mission ready 365 days of the year. Along with home station repairs, KC-10 Maintainers, also go TDY or Temporary Deployment. In which case they will "Fly" with the KC-10 to different parts of the world to perform routine maintenance like re-fueling the aircraft.

660 AMXS Contributions

"During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the KC-10 fleet provided in-flight refueling to aircraft from all branches of the U.S. armed forces as well as those of other coalition forces. In-flight refueling extended the range and capability of all U.S. and other coalition fighter aircraft. Air operations continued without costly and time-consuming ground refueling. In-flight refueling was key to the rapid airlift of material and forces. In addition to refueling airlift aircraft, the KC-10A, along with the smaller KC-135, moved thousands of tons of cargo and thousands of troops in support of the massive Persian Gulf build-up. The KC-10A and the KC-135 conducted about 51,700 separate refueling operations and delivered 125 million gallons (475 million liters) of fuel "without" missing a single scheduled rendezvous." [http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/kc-10.htm]

ources

[http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/kc-10.htm| 1] [http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/kc-10.htm| KC-10 Extender]

External links

* http://public.travis.amc.af.mil/