Homestead helps launch disaster relief into Haiti

Reservists from the 70th Aerial Port Squadron load equipment for the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue FL-TF 2 Team for deployment to Haiti on a U.S Coast Guard C-130 on Jan. 14, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo/Ian Carrier)

Ohio reservists complete aerial spray mission in Louisiana

Majs. Mark Breidenbaugh (left) and Karl Haagsma, medical entomologists with Air Force Reserve Command's 910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, discuss areas to be aerial sprayed over Terrebonne Parish, La. Their duties include identifying pests and areas to be aerial sprayed, prescribing correct treatment rates and flying on spray missions to ensure proper pesticide application. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Brent J. Davis)

Hurricane Wilma

HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Fla. -- Master Sgt. Dave Delgado (left) directs a K-loader operator as he unloads 26,000 pounds of prepackaged meals from a C-5 Galaxy here. Sergeant Delgado, a loadmaster assigned to the 433rd Airlift Wing, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, participated in the humanitarian relief effort Oct. 27. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey)

Wilma relief

HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Fla. (AFPN) -- Refueling specialists from the 482d Fighter Wing have refueled more than 200 tractor trailers engaged in Federal Emergency Management Agency Hurricane Wilma relief operations. Their operation began Oct. 20. U.S. Air Force photo by Lisa M. Macias)

Wilma relief

HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Fla. (AFPN) -- Trucks began arriving here to pre-position water, military rations, ice and tarps for the post-hurricane relief effort. The trucks, which began arriving Oct. 20, have delivered supplies from Key West to northern Miami-Dade County since the storm passed. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lisa M. Macias).

Earthquake relief

Islamabad, Pakistan -- Airman prepare to unload cargo here as part of the Pakistan earthquake relief effort. The earthquake has killed an estimated 40,000 people and has left thousands more injured in Afganistan, Pakistan, India, and the Kashmir region.(USAF photo by Airman 1st Class De-Juan Haley)(Released)

Hurricane Katrina

Another life was saved from the wrath of Katrina thanks to the concern of Senior Master Sgt. Cheryl King, Air Force reservist and maintenance superintendent with the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Sergeant King received a request to locate someone unaccounted for in New Orleans and passed the information on the 920th RQW. Here she talks with Master Sgt. Michael Bradford, avionics guidance and control specialist, also with the 920th about an upcoming mission. Sergeant King, originally from Pennsylvania, has been at Patrick since 1993 and works full time for the FAA as a safety inspector. In the background is avionics communications-navigation specialist Master Sgt. Tom Trommater working on a communications problem. (Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Elaine Mayo)

Hurricane Katrina

Maj. Tim Pfeifer, an Air Force reservist with the 920th Rescue Wing and commercial pilot with American Airlines, prepares his HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter for another search for survivors in New Orleans Sept. 10. Based out of Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., Major Pfeifer's crew is part of a Total Force team of AIr Force Reserve, Guard and active duty Airmen, who have saved more than 4,200 people. (Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Elaine Mayo)

Hurricane Katrina

Tech. Sgt. Fred Zobrist, a flight engineer with Air Force Reserve Commands 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., moves a panel on an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter to service its engine before launching a hurricane search-and-rescue mission from Jackson, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bill Huntington)

Hurricane Katrina

050905-F-7441T-2431 Members of the 934th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron lift a litter into a truck before leaving Kelly Field, Texas, on a mission. The Airmen from the 934th made up an aeromedical evacuation team that flew from Texas to New Orleans, later dropping patients off at locations around the United States. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jason Tudor)

Hurricane Katrina

Tech. Sgt. Keith Berry, an Air Force Reserve Command pararescueman from the 304th Rescue Squadron in Portland, Ore., checks for overhanging tree limbs near his HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter as it returns to the skies over southern Mississippi after checking on Hurricane Katrina survivors. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bill Huntington

Refuge from the storm

050902-F-5515J-002 Volunteers from Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., shuttle a patient who arrived there on a C-141 assigned to Air Force Reserve Commands 445th Airlift Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. About 100 patients were airlifted to Dobbins for transportation to hospitals in Atlanta, one of 17 cities in the country taking 2,500 Hurricane Katrina victims. At Dobbins, the patients went to the 80th Aerial Port Squadron building where Veterans Administration medical people assessed their conditions before they were transported by ambulance to one of 38 Atlanta hospitals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Bo Joyner)