The 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron provides combat-ready maintenance personnel and organization support to inspect, service, and repair assigned C-17 aircraft supporting Department of Defense directives. Squadron members generate 24-hour-a-day rapid global combat support, aeromedical evacuation, humanitarian relief, and contingency response airlift missions. The squadron also ensures mission-ready aircraft, personnel and equipment for worldwide deployment supporting Air Mobility Command’s global mission.

Lineage:
Constituted 602nd Organizational Maintenance Squadron, activated Dec. 27, 1965

Organized on Jan. 8, 1966, re-designated 602nd Aircraft Generation Squadron on Aug. 1, 1990

Inactivated on Dec. 31, 1997

Re-designated as the 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron May 9, 2006

Aircraft:
C-141: 1966 - 1997 

C-17: 2006 - Present

Assignments:
Military Air Transport Service, Military Airlift Command  (later Air Mobility Command), Dec. 27, 1965

60th Military Airlift Wing, Jan. 8, 1966

60th Military Airlift Group, March 6, 1978

60th Military Airlift Wing, Feb. 15, 1979

60th Logistics Group, Nov. 1, 1990

60th Operations Group, Feb. 1, 1993

60th Logistics Group, April 1, 1995 - Dec. 31, 1997

60th Air Mobility Wing, May 9, 2006

60th Maintenance Group, May 9, 2006

Stations:
Travis AFB, Calif., Jan. 8, 1966 - Dec. 31, 1997

Travis AFB, Calif., May 9, 2006 - Present