This past week, large pieces of Air Force Materiel Command’s restructuring plan fell into place at Hill AFB, Utah, and Tinker AFB, Okla. On July 12, officials redesignated Hill’s Ogden Air Logistics Center a complex—the Ogden Air Logistics Complex—and it became part of the new Air Force Sustainment Center that stood up two days earlier at Tinker, according to a Hill release. AFSC will oversee the sustainment of Air Force weapons systems. “Mission-capable and -ready weapons systems are what is required to fight and win our nation’s wars. And that is what AFSC will deliver,” said Lt. Gen. Bruce Litchfield, AFSC commander. Also at Tinker on July 10, the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center became a complex and now falls under AFSC. The air logisitcs complexes will continue their missions, but without their former command staffs, thereby reducing management overhead, states a July 12 Tinker release. The changes are part of AFMC’s consolidation of its 12 centers to five to operate more efficiently, with projected savings of about $109 million annually. On July 13, as part of these changes, the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, Calif., became the Air Force Test Center.
Due to the prolonged delay in deliveries of the Tech Refresh 3 version of the F-35 fighter, Denmark is pulling six of its TR-2-configured F-35 jets stationed in the U.S. back to home base in order to consolidate aircraft and get better training for its pilots and maintainers, the Danish…