Firefighters respond to hazardous material incident

The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station Fire Department responded to a hazardous material incident in the city May 28 as a part of the base's mutual-aid agreement with local community response teams.Firefighters from the 914th Airlift Wing trained in dealing with hazard material were called on scene

Airmen leave Afghanistan, return to Hill

Hundreds of people gathered on the base flightline May 28 to welcome loved ones home. About 300 Airmen from the 419th and 388th Fighter Wings returned after a five-month deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.In January, pilots, maintainers and support people from the 34th Fighter Squadron, 34th

Team provides medical care in Dominican Republic

A team of 39 medical specialists from the Air Force Reserve arrived here May 24 as part of MEDRETE 2010 Dominican Republic. During their two weeks of training on the island, the Air Force reservists will provide free medical care to the local population at four locations in the Puerto Plata region.

Whiteman fighter pilot sets sights on new heights

Within a few years, she became spacey - literally - planning to work some day for NASA as an astronaut, something she knew she could only do if she joined the Air Force and became a fighter pilot.Today, nearly 20 years later as a Regular Air Force pilot in the 303rd Fighter Squadron, part of Air

Survival training gets boost from Alabama state troopers

As a fully qualified survival, escape, resistance and evasion specialist, Senior Airman Chad Braunschweig has one goal - to make SERE training for the 908th Airlift Wing as realistic as possible.The opportunity for realistic training came one Sunday in May on the Alabama River in Millbrook, where

Youngstown radio operator provides communication lifeline to oil spill response

Air Force Reserve Command committed to cutting energy costs

As the energy program manager for Air Force Reserve Command, Roy Locke knows that the key to cutting energy consumption is to chip away at it a little at a time.The Air Force Reserve began curbing energy usage in the early 1970s when it first implemented a formal energy conservation program."We try

Maintainers prep planes for final resting place

Seven aircraft maintainers acted as "morticians" when they prepared four historic MC-130E Combat Talons for decommissioning and the flight to their final resting place.Airmen from the 919th Special Operations Wing spent three weeks at Gowen Field, Idaho, to give the birds "last rites" and ensure

March family to fight son's blindness with a bike ride across the United States

When 18-year-old James "Bubba" Frigo Jr. looks at the night sky, he can no longer see the stars. In 2008, a doctor specializing in inherited eye disorders diagnosed Bubba with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disorder in which photoreceptor cells in the retina die, leading to a gradual decline

Extreme athletes "Grab Some Air" for recruiting

It's almost 10 a.m. at the joint service open house here. Crowds already start to gather around a skate ramp that stands over 10 feet tall. A group of skateboarders and BMX riders warm up on the ramp, giving the crowd a taste of what's to come.After a few words from the announcer, the ramp suddenly