Altus Air Force Base News

 

  • Altus AFB named Tree City USA

    Mobility’s Hometown qualified as a Tree City USA for 2021 after planting more than 100 trees on Altus Air Force Base, Okla., last year.

  • 97 AMXS establishes service-wide foundation for KC-46 maintenance

    Enlisted maintainers from the 514th Air Mobility Wing, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J, received on-the-job training alongside experienced KC-46 Pegasus maintainers of the 97th Air Mobility Wing. This was part of the 714th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and 605th AMXS’s effort to prepare

  • Advising and reviewing; Spotlight of the 97th AMW JA Office

    Innocent until proven guilty is the cornerstone of the courtroom for the U.S. legal system, likewise is the foundation for almost every aspect of the military. In order to operate in a legal and streamlined system the 97th Air Mobility Wing Judge Advocate Office ensures operations are executed in a

  • Altus Airmen inducted into 97 TRS ‘Order of the Eagle’

    Training mobility Airmen is the primary mission of the 97th Air Mobility Wing. It takes a concerted effort from every individual, organization and unit on base to support the roughly 2,000 students per year that train at Mobility’s Hometown. To recognize the efforts of those that have gone above and

  • 97 AMW Command Chief retires a ‘hometown hero’

    There is a KC-135 Stratotanker boom operator who may be known to some as the man who clocked 5,715 hours of flight time. To others, he may be known as the Airman who began and finished his career at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. There may even be others who simply know him as the Oklahoma native