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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      JASDF ASC commander visits AMC and TRANSCOMLt. Gen. Shinichi Kaneko, Japan Air Self-Defense Force Air Support Command commander, discusses partnership opportunities with Lt. Gen. Jon Thomas, Air Mobility Command deputy commander, during his visit to AMC at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., Dec. 5, 2019. Kaneko visited Scott AFB Dec. 5-6 for immersions with AMC, U.S. Transportation Command and 375th Air Mobility Wing personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Diana Cossaboom)
                
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        JASDF ASC commander visits AMC and TRANSCOMJapan Air Self-Defense Force Lt. Gen. Shinichi Kaneko, Air Support Command commander, watches as Airmen from the 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron practice loading and treating patients on a C-17 Globemaster III at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., Dec. 6, 2019. The 375th AES provides rapid response to aeromedical evacuation contingencies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Miranda Simpson)
                
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        JASDF ASC commander visits AMC and TRANSCOMLt. Gen. Shinichi Kaneko, Japan Air Self-Defense Force Air Support Command commander, left, and Lt. Gen Jon Thomas, Air Mobility Command deputy commander, show off their matching Air War College class coins during Kaneko’s two-day visit to AMC and U.S. Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base, Ill, Dec. 5, 2019. During their office call, Kaneko and Thomas reminisced about their year together as classmates in the Air War College class of 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo by Diana Cossaboom)
                
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AMC hosts Japan's Air Support Command commander for bilateral visitPublished Dec. 9, 2019
                    
                    
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            **SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFNS) --**Japan Air Self-Defense Force Lt. Gen. Shinichi Kaneko, Air Support Command commander, visited Scott Air Force Base to tour their U.S. counterpart, Air Mobility Command, during a visit hosted by Lt. Gen. Jon Thomas, AMC deputy commander, Dec. 5-6.
“This visit provided an opportunity for effective, bilateral discussions between AMC and ASC as well as to share knowledge on mobility and logistics capabilities crucial to both our countries,” Thomas said.
During the two-day visit, Kaneko met with multiple mobility experts and leaders at both AMC and U.S. Transportation Command, including an office call and mission brief with Gen. Steve Lyons, USTRANSCOM commander, and a tour of the USTRANSCOM Global Operations Center.
Kaneko also met with Thomas for an office call and a tour of AMC’s 618th Air Operations Center, where Kaneko was provided insight on the center’s efforts to plan and execute mobility operations 24/7 across the globe. Along with the AOC visit, Kaneko received briefs on behalf of the command, surgeon general and Agile Combat Employment, which offered updates and insight on AMC and USTRANSCOM initiatives and operations undertaken since the last Japan Air Self-Defense Force ASC visit to AMC in March 2018.
Additionally, Capt. Kazuya Sakamoto, Japan Air Self-Defense Force aide-de-camp, provided an ASC brief to Thomas and the AMC staff, which highlighted ASC initiatives and topics of interest including Japan’s current security environment and opportunities for continued interoperability and cooperation in future bilateral exercises. The Japanese delegation also discussed efforts to expand Japan’s aerial refueling fleet, and improve upon its growing contingency response capabilities as ASC continues its 30-year history of providing global humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations.
During the second day of the visit, Kaneko received an aeromedical evacuation en route care mission brief and participated in tours of the 375th Air Mobility Wing’s AE simulator, AE equipment warehouse and AE fuselage, all of which are instrumental to helping AMC Airmen maximize readiness in the AE mission set.
AMC experts also briefed Kaneko on the command’s efforts to integrate the KC-46A Pegasus into the U.S. Air Force aerial refueling fleet, and the recent completion of its premier exercise, Mobility Guardian 2019, which increased interoperability with 29 international partners, to include the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, who were observers in the exercise.
Mobility Guardian 2019 focused on increasing interoperability between U.S. forces and international partners, like Japan, by testing forces against threats faced in the current fight and future, high-end conflicts, with a focus on addressing mass casualty flow and complex clinical situations where total-force and interoperable partners will need to supplement the patient demand signal.
“My visit to AMC and U.S. Transportation Command provided many insightful discussions on how our two countries can work together and improve our collective mobility capabilities to strengthen the U.S-Japan Alliance,” Kaneko said. “I’m grateful to Gen. Lyons, Lt. Gen. Thomas and all the U.S. mobility experts who took time to talk and show me their operations.”LR 



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