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  • ALI BASE, Iraq -- Airman 1st Class Ian Wise installs an explosive cartridge into the firing attachment of a robot before it investigates a suspicious package found unattended on base. He is an explosive ordnance disposal technician with the 407th Air Expeditionary Group. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Lek Mateo)

    EOD Airmen rely on high-tech, steady nerves

    Soldiers of the 56th Brigade Combat Team encounter explosive situations daily as they travel along Iraq’s highways during convoy escort missions. But things hit closer to home when the Texas Army National Guardsmen found a suspicious package in a trailer near their headquarters recently. Security forces Airmen with the 407th Air Expeditionary Group
  • SAN ANTONIO -- Master Sgts. John Clauss (left) and Rob Rodriguez perform an operational check-up on a defibrillator. The two flying medics helped aeromedical evacuation teams organize and load their equipment for flights. They are with the 433rd Airlift Wing at nearby Lackland Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jason Tudor)

    Alamo Wing charges into aeromedical evacuation effort

    Nerves of steel, the patience of a saint and the ability to forego substantial eating and sleeping for days at a time. Anyone seeking a job coordinating the aeromedical evacuation of thousands after a major disaster need not apply unless they have those traits. Some dry-erase markers, a telephone, and three white boards wouldn’t hurt either.

  • Guard, Reserve integrate seamlessly into Nellis organization

    Organizations at the Air Warfare Center here are taking the concept, “One Team, One Fight,” literally and are combining active duty, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command personnel in all mission areas. “This is a smarter, better way of doing business, because we’re able to capitalize on the unique experience levels and stability that
  • 050712-F-0000A-001 Master Sgt. Scott Davis, an individual mobilization augmentee from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, deployed to Iraq, can now manage his career through the Air Reserve Personnel Centers Virtual Personnel Center for the Guard and Reserve. (Courtesy Photo)

    Center “supports” one-stop service around the world

    The Air Reserve Personnel Center here is more than 7,000 miles from Baghdad but for an individual mobilization augmentee serving in Iraq, the center’s personnel services are only seconds away. Earlier this year ARPC officials released the Virtual Personnel Center for the Guard and Reserve, a Web-based personnel service portal for Air Force
  • 050901-F-3742P-003 Lt. Col. Martha (Marty) Soper from 22nd Air Force gives direction to volunteers offloading critically injured patients evacuated from New Orleans as a result of Hurricane Katrina. The patients were sent to Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., Sept. 1 where they were stabilized and transported to Atlanta hospitals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Donald Peek)

    Dobbins serves as transportation hub for evacuees

    Hurricane Katrina evacuees started arriving here by military airlift in the afternoon Sept. 1. By the morning of Sept. 5, a total of 1,205 had touched down at the Marietta base and were transported to area shelters or hospitals. In all, 17 planes – C-17s, C-141s and even some Delta commercial airliners – made the trip from New Orleans to Dobbins
  • LOUIS ARMSTRONG NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, La. -- Air Force medics tend to patients awaiting airlift. C-130 Hercules crews from the 50th Airlift Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., teamed up with Airmen from the 452nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., to relocate sick and injured patients devastated after Hurricane Katrina. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Jon Quinlan)

    Airmen saving lives in New Orleans, Mississippi

    Air Force bases nationwide are deploying hundreds of Airmen to Louisiana and Mississippi to save lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Search and rescue missions are under way around the clock to evacuate hurricane victims stranded along the Gulf Coast. Two 50th Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules from Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., and
  • NEW ORLEANS -- With a combined force of 26 helicopters and about 400 people, pararescue teams composed of reservists and active duty Airmen are flying 8- to 10-hour missions over New Orleans' flooded city to save lives. Rescuing more than 2,000 people in five days, the pararescue teams locate and retrieve the residents, drop them off at a collection point, and then circle around again looking for more. (Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bill Huntington)

    A city underwater gets help from above

    With their homes and city underwater, many citizens of New Orleans have been looking to the skies for help from helicopter rescue crews of the Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard and active duty. Hoisted aloft from rooftops and carried aboard from broken bridge spans and other locations isolated by flooding waters, more than 2,000 people have
  • NEW ORLEANS -- Tech. Sgt. Lem Torres and a young boy are lifted to safety from the roof of the child's flooded home. The pararescueman is from 38th Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., and is deployed to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina search-and-rescue operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez)

    Pararescuemen hoist survivors to safety

    Though it is a city without electricity, rescue crews see plenty of lights as they fly over New Orleans each night searching for survivors in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Sporadic fires burn wildly, but through their night-vision devices, combat search and rescue crews from the Air Force Reserve focus their attention on the flickering

  • C-130s to spray for insects in states affected by hurricane

    Two C-130H aircraft and 50 Air Force reservists from the 910th Airlift Wing left Youngstown Air Reserve Station Sept. 8 to fly aerial spray missions in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. They will operate out of Duke Field, Fla., because it is near areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Also, the base is able to handle the aircraft and support the

  • War veterans volunteer to care for hurricane victims

    Within 48 hours of Hurricane Katrina slamming the Gulf Coast Aug. 29, Capt. Frances Robertson was ready to go save lives. At 6 a.m. she reported for duty, realized the gravity of the situation, and promptly called her mother and asked her to watch her kids, warning her it might be several days before she came home. During the next two days, Captain
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