815th Air Mobility Squadron [815th AMS]
The 815th Air Mobility Squadron has a wartime mission to deploy trained and equipped personnel and serviceable equipment to provide deployed command and control (C2), aerial port, and aircraft maintenance elements of Air Mobility Command's Tanker Airlift Control Elements (TALCEs) and Mission Support Teams (MSTs).
The squadron has the capacity to establish and/or expand C2 and mission support for strategic and theater air mobility forces providing rapid global mobility for war, contingency operations, or AMC-directed missions.
The unit also provides secure and nonsecure C2 communications for TALCE operations and in-transit visibility and plans, coordinates, and conducts onload, offload, enroute mission support, air refueling coordination, and contingency load planning/equipment preparation for tasked operating locations.
The 815th AMS provides forward AMC command and control, cargo movement, and aircraft maintenance in support of National Command Authority directed contingency operations, humanitarian relief, and joint/unified exercises.
The mission of the 815 AMS is to provide teams to rapidly extend Air Mobility infrastructure to meet America's worldwide objectives.
In 1998 members of the 815th Air Mobility Squadron are operating a Tanker Airlift Control Element, commonly called a TALCE, to control all military airlift traffic in and out of their deployed location in support of Operation Southern Watch which is the US and coalition enforcement of the no-fly-zone over Southern Iraq. War Reserve Materials were airlifted to locations in the operating area. The 615th and 815th were deployed from Travis Air Force Base, CA.
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