Balad Air Base with a mission to recover and launch AMC aircraft transiting Balad, minimizing ground time to reduce exposure to enemy attacks, In 2008, AMC activated the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing at Ramstein. The 521st assumed the theater air mobility support mission and the squadrons of the 721st located away from Ramstein were reassigned to it, Lineage Constituted as the 608th Military Airlift Group on 1 July 1983 Activated on 1 August 1983 Redesignated 608th Airlift Support Group on 1 June 1992 Redesignated 621st Air Mobility Support Group on 1 July 1994 Redesignated 721st Air Mobility Operations Group on 15 March 2001 Assignments 322d Airlift Division, 1 August 1983 Twenty-First Air Force (later 21st Expeditionary Mobility Task Force), 1 March 1992 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing, 1 September 2008 – present Stations Ramstein AB, West Germany (later Germany), 1 August 1983 – present Subordinate Units 10th Military Airlift Squadron, 15 March 1984 – 31 March 1991 58th Military Airlift Squadron, 1 August 1983 – 1 June 1992 608th Aerial Port Squadron, 1 August 1983 – 1 July 1992 608th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (later 608th Maintenance Squadron), 1 August 1983 – 1 July 1994 623d Air Mobility Support Squadron (later 623d Air Mobility Operations Squadron, 723d Air Mobility Squadron), 1 July 1994 – present 625th Airlift Support Squadron (later 625th Air Mobility Support Squadron, 725th Air Mobility Squadron), 1 June 1992 – 1 September 2008 Located at Torrejon Air Base, Spain. Moved to Naval Station Rota Spain 627th Airlift Support Squadron (later 627th Air Mobility Support Squadron, 627th Air Mobility Operations Squadron, 727th Air Mobility Squadron), 1 August 1993 – 1 September 2008 Located at RAF Mildenhall, England 779th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron unknown date (c.2002?) – inactivated 15 April 2006 Ramstein Air Base, Germany Aircraft C-12F, 1983–1992 C-21, 1983–1992 C-20, 1983–1992 C-23A, 1983–1992 C-135, 1983-1992 Awards and Campaigns References Notes Bibliography External links AMC stands up new en route structure wing in Europe (Retrieved 24 Oct 2012) Groups of the United States Air Force Military units and formations established in 1966