AMSC 14-B graduates Published June 16, 2014 By Capt. Daniel J. Gregorich, Sr. U.S. Air Force Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Operations School NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. -- The U. S. Air Force Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Operations School celebrated another milestone recently, graduating its ninth Advanced Maintenance Superintendent Course class June 6. "The USAF AMMOS is an institution for warriors. Students are selected because they have the greatest potential as graduates to expand combat capability," said Lt. Col. Brian Moore, USAF AMMOS commandant. "We kept their training tough, placed them in nearly impossible scenarios and gave them less time to find solutions than any of them would have wanted. Our school is that way for a reason, the Air Force is stronger today because of their efforts; and as they use the skills which they have learned to lead our Airmen, the Air Force will be stronger tomorrow." The AMSC was approved by Headquarters Air Force A4- logistics, installations and mission support in 2009 as a six-week course to provide graduate-level education in expeditionary logistics and Agile Combat Support to SNCOs in the aircraft and munitions maintenance community. AMSC graduates are producers as highly skilled tactical and operational maintenance SNCOs, capable of effectively leading aircraft and munitions maintenance operations at home station or deployed. Graduates can skillfully manage aircraft fleet-health and overall unit readiness challenges to ensure combat-ready weapons systems in support of an air campaign. Graduates will plan and execute a unit's flying hour program and can efficiently deploy forces to successfully accomplish expeditionary combat operations. They can design and execute munitions operations and production. Graduates are charged to effectively share their knowledge as mentors to their peers and subordinates. They also act as an advisor to wing leadership on aircraft and munitions maintenance at home station or at deployed locations. "I am extremely proud of this AMSC class. The class came together as a strong team and mastered maintenance tactics, techniques, and procedures. I am looking forward to hearing back from these graduates as to how they are applying what they learned at AMMOS to their home station jobs. I am sure they will enhance the maintenance community by fulfilling their AMMOS graduate roles of being producers, mentors, and advisors," said Maj. Jennifer Gurganus, USAF AMMOS director of operations. To mark the occasion, Col. Mark E. Rose, 57th Maintenance Group commander, , served as the graduation guest speaker. He addressed the graduates in posing the question: "What is your weapons system?" Col Rose's response, "To me, your weapons system is the maintenance and logistics complex that makes airpower, both at the base level and beyond. No one is smarter on how to do this than you are, as AMMOS graduates. You are deemed experts in the art of maintenance leadership and the science of maintaining weapon systems and thereby leaders of your particular peer groups by that distinction. That is what sets you apart from others, and I challenge you to put that distinction to good use." Graduating from the USAF AMSC, Class 14-B: Senior Master Sgt. Eric E. Burke Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. Senior Master Sgt. Timothy T. Johnson Nellis AFB, Nev. Senior Master Sgt. Matthew D. Lammers Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio Senior Master Sgt. Ray G. Lloyd Hill AFB, Utah Senior Master Sgt. Richard D. Louis, Jr. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Senior Master Sgt. Jason T. Morehouse Elmendorf AFB, Alaska Senior Master Sgt. Claus E. Peris Travis AFB, Calif. Senior Master Sgt. James A. Ray Little Rock AFB, Ark. Senior Master Sgt. James T. Royston, Jr. Cannon AFB, N.M. Senior Master Sgt. Robert D. Simmons, Jr. Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii Senior Master Sgt. Craig E. Smith Whiteman AFB, Mo. Senior Master Sgt. Keith L. Spears Dyess AFB, Texas Senior Master Sgt. Robert J. Spychalski Ramstein Air Base, Germany Senior Master Sergeant Jeremiah L. Sutton Fairchild AFB, Wash.
