The Air Mobility Command patch insignia is taken from that of the Military Air Transport Service, an inactive Unified Command established in 1948 through the consolidation of the Navy’s Naval Air Transport Service and the United States Air Force’s Air Transport Command. It consists of a shield and scroll, with the shield containing a disc of ultramarine blue on a gray field; latitudinal and longitudinal lines denote the disc as a globe that has been rotated counterclockwise 27 degrees. At the globe’s center are three arrows, taken from the Depart of Defense seal and representing the three DoD branches, on which are superimposed a pair of golden-orange wings.
But the Military Air Transport Service is just one of the forerunners of Air Mobility Command (AMC), which was established in 1992 from its direct ancestor, USAF Military Airlift Command. Military Airlift Command was established in 1966 and served as the main strategic airlift organization of the Air Force until 1974, when it also assumed tactical airlift duties by acquiring appropriate airlift units from the Tactical Air Command in 1974.
In 1982, the Air Force consolidated the heritage and lineage of two inactivated commands—the Air Transport Command (1942 – 1948) and the aforementioned Military Air Transport Service, which was inactivated in 1966—with the Military Airlift Command’s, which in turn was acquired by Airlift Mobility Command in 1992. In 2016, the Airlift Mobility Command merged with Military Air Command, which resulted in AMC becoming the oldest major command in the Air Force, with a history dating back to the creation of the Air Corps Ferrying Command on 29 May 1941.
Today, Air Mobility Command is the air component of the U.S. Transportation Command and has ten installations in the U.S. It also commands the 18th Air Force, which is responsible for planning and executing all air mobility missions.