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621ST CONTINGENCY RESPONSE WING
Posted 12/8/2011
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The 621st Contingency Response Wing is highly-specialized in training and rapidly deploying personnel to quickly open airfields and establish, expand, sustain, and coordinate air mobility operations. From wartime taskings to disaster relief, the 621st extends Air Mobility Command's reach in deploying people and equipment around the globe.
Established in March 2005 and based at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., the 621st consists of approximately 620 Airmen in three groups, seven squadrons and ten geographically separated operating locations aligned with major Army and Marine Corps combat units. The wing maintains a ready corps of light, lean and agile mobility support forces able to respond as directed by the 18th Air Force at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., in order to meet Combatant Command wartime and humanitarian requirements.
Two Contingency Response Groups (817th and 818th CRGs) provide the core cadre of expeditionary command and control, airlift and air refueling operations, aerial port, and aircraft maintenance personnel for deployment worldwide as mobility control teams and airfield assessment teams. These teams rapidly survey, assess and establish contingency air base lodgments and expand existing AMC support infrastructure worldwide. Each CRG has a Global Mobility Squadron and Global Mobility Readiness Squadron. The GMS performs aircraft quick-turn maintenance, airfield management, passenger and cargo movement, and command and control of personnel and aircraft. The GMRS supplies threat assessment, force protection, air traffic control, weather, airfield systems maintenance, finance and contracting.
In addition, the 818th CRG houses the newly established 818th Mobility Support Advisory Squadron. This squadron, the first of its kind in the Air Force, is focused on the mutual exchange of air mobility concepts and procedures with African partner nations in the development of their air mobility systems.
The third group, the 621st Contingency Operations Support Group, houses the 819th Global Support Squadron, the 21st Air Mobility Operations Squadron, and the Air Mobility Liaison Officers for the 621st CRW.
The 819th GSS deploys contingency response forces to locations where the en-route support for AMC's global air mobility operations is insufficient or nonexistent. In garrison, the 819th GSS manages and maintains the wing's assigned equipment as well as facilitating training for and equipping 621st CRW assigned personnel.
The 21st AMOS provides operational, level-of-war planning and execution of theater airlift, air refueling, and aeromedical evacuation missions. The squadron accomplishes this role by augmenting existing Air Mobility Divisions or Air and Space Operations Centers within the theater, or by standing up an independent AMD in austere environments. While performing AMD duties, AMOS personnel synchronize scheduling of all theater-owned airframes and aircrew to meet the theater commanders' mobility objectives.
The 621st CRW also includes Air Mobility Liaison Officers who provide air mobility expertise to their aligned Army/Marine brigade and division and corps level commanders. The AMLO operating locations include Ft. Drum, NY; Ft. Bragg and Camp Lejeune, NC; Ft. Stewart and Ft. Benning, GA; Ft. Campbell and Ft. Knox, KY; Ft. Polk, LA. Wiesbaden and Kaiserslautern, Germany in addition to Vicenza, Italy.
Today, more than ever, the Air Force is supporting mobility operations all over the globe. Operations such as ENDURING FREEDOM, IRAQI FREEDOM and NEW DAWN and humanitarian assistance deployments such as Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti and Pakistan Earthquake relief operations are tributes to the 621st CRW's capabilities and readiness in providing mission support whenever and wherever the requirement exists.
Point of Contact
621st Contingency Response Wing, Public Affairs Office; 1907 E Arnold Ave., Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., 08641-5019; 621CRW.PA@us.af.mil; DSN 650-0668 or (609) 754-0668.
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