AMC leadership tours JBMDL, visits 621st CRW

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  • By Capt. Stephanie Squires
  • 621st Contingency Response Wing Public Affairs
JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. --  

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – U. S. Air Force Gen. Johnny Lamontagne, commander of Air Mobility Command, and Chief Master Sgt. Jamie Newman, AMC command chief, visited the Airmen of the 621st Contingency Response Wing during a visit to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, February 26-28.

During their visit, AMC leadership gained insight on the 621st CRW’s four main mission sets, saw innovative advances in technology that Airmen are working on and congratulated the team on their banner year in 2024.

The base tour began at the wing headquarters, where Col. Jason Herring, 621st CRW commander, and other senior leadership briefed them on the Wing’s main mission sets: air advising, open the airbase, joint integration, and theater-wide command and control.

Lamontagne commended the 621st CRW, also known as the Devil Raiders, on its accomplishments and performance, and noted their unique and essential mission set.

Lamontagne and Newman also visited the Global Readiness Deployment Center where they saw the mission first-hand. The GRDC mobility warehouse is where the specialized air mobility response force repairs, prepares and stores its JBMDL-based equipment for worldwide alert. Both JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and Travis Air Force Base have GRDC warehouses for Contingency Response Airmen.

During the GRDC walkthrough, AMC leadership spoke with the 821st Contingency Response Squadron command team about their recent deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba via a teleconference video call with AMC’s command team.

The 621st CRW innovation office closed the GRDC visit with an innovation feature showcasing Airmen testing new ground-breaking products which included power generators to atmospheric water generators. These products are capable of improving functionality away from home station.

The visit concluded with an all-call at the base theater, where Lamontagne and Newman spoke about AMC’s priorities and mission sets.

“We have high trust and confidence in this team of teams. We are working to make things better, it's going to take some time, it's going to take some resources, but the commitment to excellence, you've seen it in spades,” said Lamontagne.

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