b'First KC-10 arrivesat AMARGBy Brian BrackensAir Force Life Cycle Management CenterPublic Affairs | July 16, 2020A KC-10 from the 305th Air Mobility Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, landed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, July 13, to begin the storage process at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) on base. (Courtesy photo)y Jim Garamoneears after the KC-10preservation, maintenance, and regeneration ApproBximately 40 yDOD News | Dec. 19, 2020Extender took to the skies for the first time, afacility managed by AFMC, with more thanwww.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2452910/space-force-personnel-to-be-called-guardians/retiring KC-10 from the 305th Air Mobility Wing4,400 retired aircraft and 13 aerospace vehicles at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey,from the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, arrived at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance andCoast Guard, and other federal agencies suchRegeneration Group (AMARG) here, July 13 toas NASA.begin the storage process. In support of this first retirement, the KC-10 Upon arrival, possession of the aircraft changedprogram office in coordination with Headquarters from Air Mobility Command, to the Air ForceAir Mobility Command (AMC) finalized allMateriel Command, and the plane became part engineering, logistic and programmatic actions of the inactive inventory to be used as a source required to formally turnover the first KC-10of parts for the active fleet. aircraft to the AMARG.A joint team fromBased on the DC-10 civilian aircraft, the KC-10AFLCMC and AMC worked with AMARG employees is a workhorse of an aircraft, with tremendousto take the KC-10 through a series of measures payload and refueling capability. It can carryto protect it while in storage, to include draining 356,000 pounds of fuel, up to 75 people, andall of the fuel and hydraulics, and sealing the around 170,000 pounds of cargo more thanaircraft up.4,400 miles unrefueled. We will help them with the technical part of Over the last 40 years, the KC-10 fleet haspreserving the plane, said Stupic. We built the flown approximately 2,255,000 flight hours andwork specification for them, and well provide 409,000 sorties, delivering air refueling supportengineering and tech support for the first time to joint and coalition aircraft. they do it.This (AMARG induction) is a major milestoneWith the first retirement to AMARG, therein the life of a weapons system, said Joe Stupic,are now 58 active KC-10s in the fleet. AnKC-10 System Program Manager, with the Airadditional two aircraft are expected to retireForce Life Cycle Management Center. In AFLCMC, we manage and are responsible for the life cycleto AMARG this year.(of aircraft and other weapon systems) from theThe KC-10 fleet is operating well, andglint in the eye or idea, development, modernization,will continue to fly, Stupic said. While thisand sustainment, to their very last day, with theis the first to go to AMARG, it doesnt meanlast plane going into retirement. We manage thethat our job is done. We have more supportwhole thing. to provide until the whole fleet is drawnCommonly referred to as The Boneyard,down, all the contracts closed and partsAMARG is a 2,600 acre aerospace storage, dispositioned.22 Military Appreciation Resource Magazine Thank You For Your Service'