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Objective and Scope:

This instruction specifies the responsibilities associated with the USAF Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Operations School, the Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Education Program (AMMEP) and the selection of all USAF AMMOS students. Due to the diversity of missions throughout the Air Force, this instruction provides only common, required actions. Specific programs may require MAJCOM, NAF, wing, maintenance group, or squadron supplements to this instruction. Graduates of the USAF AMMOS possess the knowledge and skills necessary to produce airpower as required to meet mission requirements at home station and deployed and provide expert advice on aircraft and munitions maintenance related requirements, plans, applications, and issues at AEF lead wings, Numbered Air Forces (NAFs) and unified commands. The graduate is trained in operational and expeditionary aircraft and munitions maintenance Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) and is familiar with Air Operations Center (AOC) operations, Air Force Forces (AFFOR) Staffs, and Combat Air Force (CAF), Mobility Air Force (MAF), and Special Operations Forces (SOF) combat support TTPs.

History: USAF AMMOS was developed due to maintenance and logistics lessons learned during Operation ALLIED FORCE. The conceptual framework was to create highly skilled operational logisticians with the wartime skills capable of mobilizing, bedding down, employing, sustaining, redeploying, and reconstituting combat air power and the support functions associated with combat airpower. Over time, USAF AMMOS has transformed to provide a deliberate focus on advanced operational and tactical maintenance.

Mission: Provide Captains and senior noncommissioned officers graduate-level expertise in tactical and operational aircraft skill sets under the construct of the USAF Agile Combat Support master processes (see Table 1.1.). Develop officers and SNCOs with the ability to expand USAF combat capabilities through the efficient production of combat airpower, mentor and develop fellow officers and senior noncommissioned officers, and to critically think to solve problems and provide sound advice to leadership.