60th LRS makes mission happen

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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. --  The 60th Logistics Readiness Squadron was created in 2002 by combining three career fields: supply, transportation and logistics planners.

From 1948 to Sept. 5, 2002, it was known as the 60th Supply Squadron, its sole mission was supply while transportation and logistics plans fell under the wing.

Now, it is made up of four flights with several distinct enlisted Air Force Specialty Codes: fuels, materiel management, deployment and distribution and vehicle maintenance.

The Fuels Management Flight is charged with managing the base's jet fuel, diesel fuel, unleaded gasoline, liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen products. In order to manage these products, they are received from a local contractor into the base storage facilities. From there, they account for every gallon, from the time it enters the base, until it touches the skin of the aircraft or the vehicle tank.

During this span, the Fuels Information Service Center Section is charged with verifying fuel quality, managing inventory levels and processing fuel accounting transactions. The Operation Section provides delivery of the product to customers, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Furthermore, it supports transient aircraft, president of the United States, local law enforcement and local fire and rescue support as needed. In the last fiscal year alone, the Fuels Management Flight was No. 1 in Air Mobility Command for gallons issued at more than 48 million gallons.

The Materiel Management Flight is responsible for managing Air Mobility Command's largest supply account and is home to 130 military and civilian employees across nine separate work centers in three different warehouse locations. The equipment management office oversees 190 equipment accounts for Travis Air Force Base, California, and its partner units, consisting of 22,000 assets valued at more than $360 million.

The aircraft parts store maintains more than 9,000 C-5 Galaxies and C-17 Globemaster III aircraft line items, consisting of more than 66,000 assets valued at $200 million, in addition to mission readiness spares packages worth another $40 million. Supply logistics involves cradle-to-grave asset management, new parts are provided when needed and broken/worn out parts are either appropriately disposed of or sent to maintenance back shops or depots for repair. When an aircraft cannot fly due to maintenance issues and parts are needed, the maintenance liaison team sources parts through headquarters AMC counterparts to get parts here.

The Individual Protective Equipment Section maintains the largest inventory of IPE and mobility gear throughout AMC, consisting of more than 600,000 assets worth $48 million. They maintain and store AMC's largest weapons armory, storing weapons for all 60th Air Mobility Wing and 349th AMW deployment requirements.

They have several other sections with the Materiel Management Flight including customer service, inspection and inventory and flight service center as well as central storage and issue. The priorities are outstanding customer service and maintaining accountability and control of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of inventory.
Because of the talents and training of its personnel, the Materiel Management Flight consistently has more members deployed around the world than any other flight in LRS.

The Deployment and Distribution Flight supports 13,000 aircrew requests and more than 150 distinguished visitors requests annually. Since beginning the new Air Expeditionary Force Next teaming, which deploys larger numbers of Airmen from the same unit, they have deployed more than 1,374 passengers and 132.2 tons of cargo.
It manages a state-of-the-art car wash for government vehicles generating $35,000 in reimbursements yearly. The Deployment and Distribution Flight also is responsible for maintains a War Reserve Materiel Program valued at $194 million.

The Vehicle Management Flight works behind the scenes at Travis and always keeps the wheels rolling. This hard-working group of 37 civilians and two military members keeps Travis' 762 vehicles in the hands of the operators.

Many of the civilians have 10 to 15 years of experience maintaining the fleet, which was 92 percent mission capable in the past year.

Travis has several critical missions that vehicles directly support, from the high deck patient loader for David Grant USAF Medical Center, the largest refueling fleet in AMC, to the largest 60K loader fleet in the Air Force, with 17 supporting aerial port squadron operations.

This main shop maintains all the civil engineer squadron equipment, fire trucks, aircraft service vehicles, aircraft towing, M-series units and general purpose vehicles. The body shop maintains a complete corrosion control for the Air Force owned vehicles and maintains 30 refuelers. The 463L shop maintains 60K loaders that are the workforce for the Travis cargo mission. They also maintain all the Contingency Response Wing 25K loaders and 10K A/T forklifts used to accomplish their worldwide mission. Vehicle Management Flight also is active in supporting presidential tasking worldwide.

The Command Support Staff and Operations Compliance is known as the "fifth flight" and this area is a hybrid of all of the AFSCs.

The command support staff is behind the scenes of everything outside of the career field position, from giving a proper tour of Travis within 30 days of an inbound arrival, finalizing Enlisted Performance Reviews for promotions, pulling the strings for the commanders' calls, distributing awards to individuals who perform at the highest level. The squadron controls the programs under the commander to ensure its Airmen are able to do the task at hand.

It ensures members in- and out-process for deployments, temporary duties and permanent changes of station. It also controls the Drug Demand Reduction Program, which keeps the Airmen in line with standards according to the Air Force. Another program it ensures is the unit fitness orogram by scheduling its personnel for fitness exams to promote Air Force standards for fitness, health and wellness.

The squadron has received 18 outstanding unit awards since 1966. More recently, the squadron received the 2015 Air Mobility Command Daedalian Logistics Effectiveness Award which encompasses all logistics support to include logistics plans, fuels, transportation and supply.