PACAF C-9 retirement details released
PACAF News
Release Date: 8/27/2003
HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii - As part of the U. S. Air Force's plan to retire 20 C-9A Nightingale aircraft from the inventory, Pacific Air Forces will remove four C-9A from Yokota Air Base, Japan by October 2003.
In conjunction with this action, the 374th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, an in-flight medical support squadron, will deactivate at Yokota AB and stand up as the 18th AES at Kadena Air Base, Japan to continue supporting the aeromedical evacuation mission and to collocate the medical aircrew personnel, existing KC-135 aircraft and Naval Hospital Okinawa, the major medical treatment facility in the western Pacific.
With the loss of the C-9A aeromedical aircraft, the KC-135 aircraft currently assigned to Kadena AB will assume the critical medical support mission of moving U.S. military members in need of medical attention. There will be no replacement aircraft assigned to Yokota AB, and there will not be an increase of aircraft at Kadena AB because of this move.
Approximately 272 personnel plus their families will leave Yokota AB, and Kadena AB will receive approximately 119 personnel and their families.
As part of a previously released force structure announcement, the Theater Patient Movement and Requirements Center recently relocated to Hickam AFB from Yokota AB, increasing Hickam AFB's authorized workforce by 14 military positions. The TPMRC is a medical and control unit responsible for coordinating and regulating patient movement in the Pacific theater. (Courtesy of Pacific Air Forces News Service)
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