Guard joins Reserve C-130s fighting Rocky Mountain fires

The U.S. Forest Service, through the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, requested the activation of two additional Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped military C-130 aircraft to assist in battling wildland fires. Two aircraft from the 146th Airlift Wing, California Air

Joint mass casualty exercise tests Fort Worth personnel

Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, Navy and Civil Air Patrol personnel conducted a joint mass casualty exercise here June 23.  "The goal is to facilitate learning in a joint effort as well as individual training requirements so that we could actually answer and work a mass casualty," said Maj.

Scott holds medical decontamination exercise

Reserve C-130s respond to Lime Gulch fire

Two Air Force Reserve Command C-130s equipped with U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems responded to the Lime Gulch fire in southern Jefferson County, Colo. June 19.The U.S. Forest Service-generated launch order was received shortly after 2 p.m. by the AF Reserve aircrews who

Refueling the Bone

A B-1B Lancer assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, approaches the refueling boom of a KC-135 Stratotanker from McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., during an air refueling training mission June 20, 2013. The KC-135 was being operated by an aircrew made up of the Air Force

Reserve C-130 spray away mosquitos at Charleston

An Air Force Reserve aircrew flying a C-130 Hercules assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, performs aerial spraying of mosquitos June 15, 2013, over Joint Base Charleston - Weapons Station, S.C. The insecticide the unit uses is mixed with water to dilute the

Reserve aerial spray unit swats 'skeeters' at JB Charleston

"There must be thousands of 'em, millions of 'em. What are they doing?""It looks like they're preparing an invasion."Even though this dialogue is from the 1996 science fiction blockbuster film, "Independence Day," it is an accurate description of the annual real-life assault from saltwater marsh

Homestead reservist graduates Weapons Instructor Course

A reservist here recently graduated from the Air Force Weapons School's Weapons Instructor Course at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.Maj. Ryan Freeman, an F-16 pilot with the 93rd Fighter Squadron, was one of only three reservists, in a class of 105 Airmen, to graduate the most recent round of

Through Airmen's Eyes: Raising awareness for Lupus

Staff Sgt. Nicole Turley, client support technician from the Air Reserve Personnel Center, thought she had grown up with a family who all had healthy lives. It was not until Turley was an adult that she found out her aunt was diagnosed with Lupus.According to the Lupus Foundation of America, Lupus

Total force trifecta pulls off tanker-fighter mission

Members of the 459th Air Refueling Wing here got first-hand experience working within the total force trifecta of active duty, Guard and Reserve during an overseas mission June 7-12. Two pilots, three maintainers and a boom operator from the Air Force Reserve's 459th ARW traveled to Estonia to