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AFRC News

  • MAFFS Equipped C-130 Crashes in South Dakota

    At approximately 6 P.M. MDT July 1, a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System equipped C-130 aircraft supporting firefighting missions crashed in the southwest corner of South Dakota. The aircraft was supporting the efforts against the White Draw Fire.The cause of the crash is not known and the

  • Four MAFFS-equipped C-130s change staging location Monday

    At the request of the U.S. Forest Service, four of the eight military C-130 aircraft, each equipped with that agency's Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System will begin operating out of the Wyoming Air National Guard's base, in Cheyenne, Monday.Since June 25, MAFFS-equipped aircraft have been

  • Additional MAFFS aircraft arrive

    Additional Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130s arrived Peterson Air Force base today. The C-130s from the 146th Airlift Wing, Channel Islands, Calif. and the 145th Airlift Wing, Charlotte, N.C. will join the 302nd (Colo.) and 153rd (Wyo.) Airlift Wings in supporting the

  • Alamo Wing hosts aviation students

    Airman First Class Jaqlynn De La Rosa, a 68th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, explains the C-5A Galaxy's landing gear to ACE Aviation Camp students here June 28. The 68th AS is one of three flying squadrons attached to the 433rd Airlift Wing. The ACE program helps students develop an awareness of the

  • Weapons Loaders become first nuclear certified crew in AFRC

    The Air Force Reserve reached a milestone in June, when members of the 707th Maintenance Squadron became the command's first certified nuclear weapons load crew on the B-52H Stratofortress.The 707th MXS is a classic associate unit with the 2nd Bomb Wing here., and supports the 343rd Bomb Squadron,

  • Panetta Commends Jacoby for Northcom Fire Assistance

    In an afternoon call to the commander of U.S. Northern Command, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta commended Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr. for leading the Defense Department's effort to support the fight against Colorado's raging wildfires.The secretary also commended National Guard and Northcom

  • Don't be a 4th of July statistic: An Airman's story

    The summer before his senior year in high school, Airman 1st Class Sean Huntley was celebrating the Fourth of July the same way most Americans do: By setting off some fireworks with friends."We bought several hundred dollars worth of fireworks," said Huntley, now a KC-135 Stratotanker crew chief

  • MAFFS crews train for mountain fire fighting scenarios

    Heat, high elevation and mountainous terrain are a combination that makes an already difficult mission that much tougher. The Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System trained C-130 Hercules pilots of the 731st Expeditionary Air Squadron have been dealing with these conditions since they started flying